ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2018
Coffee consumption and risk of rare cancers in Scandinavian countries.
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- Coffee consumption and risk of renal cancer: a meta-analysis of cohort evidence.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2022Pooled it
- Coffee Consumption and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Meta-Epidemiological Study of Population-based Cohort Studies.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2020Pooled it
- The association between coffee consumption and esophageal cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of current observational evidence.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Article
- Coffee Consumption and Its Potential Implications for Digestive Tract Carcinogenesis.Current nutrition reports · 2026Review
- Pancreatic Cancer: A Review of Risk Factors.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Childhood and adulthood passive and active smoking, and the ABO group as risk factors for pancreatic cancer in women.United European gastroenterology journal · 2024Article
- Coffee consumption and cancer risk: a Mendelian randomisation study.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022Article
- Antitumor Effects of Freeze-Dried Robusta Coffee (Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2021Article
- Coffee consumption and pancreatic cancer.European journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Evidence on coffee consumption and pancreatic cancer: not great, not terrible.European journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Association between coffee consumption and risk of bladder cancer in a meta-analysis of 16 prospective studies.Nutrition & metabolism · 2019Article
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Abstract
Studies on the association between heavy coffee consumption and risk of less frequently diagnosed cancers are scarce. We aimed to quantify the association between filtered, boiled, and total coffee consumption and the risk of bladder, esophageal, kidney, pancreatic, and stomach cancers. We used data from the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study and the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study. Information on coffee consumption was available for 193,439 participants. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazards models to calculate hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the investigated cancer sites by category of total, filtered, and boiled coffee consumption. Heavy filtered coffee consumers (≥ 4 cups/day) had a multivariable adjusted HR of 0.74 of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (95% CI 0.57-0.95) when compared with light filtered coffee consumers (≤ 1 cup/day). We did not observe significant associations between total or boiled coffee consumption and any of the investigated cancer sites, neither in the entire study sample nor in analyses stratified by sex. We found an increased risk of bladder cancer among never smokers who were heavy filtered or total coffee consumers, and an increased risk of stomach cancer in never smokers who were heavy boiled coffee consumers. Our data suggest that increased filtered coffee consumption might reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer. We did not find evidence of an association between coffee consumption and the risk of esophageal or kidney cancer. The increased risk of bladder and stomach cancer was confined to never smokers.
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