Coffee helps brain cancer

Recent testing shows that the caffeine in coffee (or green tea) may help curb the growth of brain cancer and may prevent the cancer from spreading.  The results were based on animal testing and the equivalent of two to five cups of coffee per day. 

It seems that all of the positive research on coffee is based on five cups per day.  Maybe we need to change our name to JustFiveCups. 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/health-fitness/health/Coffee-slows-brain-cancer-growth/articleshow/5526889.cms

Coffee slows brain cancer growth

ANI, 2 February 2010, 11:28am IST

A group of scientists has said that caffeine found in coffee and green tea could effectively slow the growth of brain cancer

Coffee, green tea may slow brain cancer growth (Getty Images)

According to the researchers at the (South) Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), animal test results showed regular caffeine found in coffee and green tea to have strongly repressed the growth of inositol trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) closely linked to glioblastoma, which is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumour found in human. The research team, comprising of scientists from Seoul National University, Gyeongsang National University, and Emory University in Atlanta, said that calcium plays a primary role in spreading glioblastoma tumour cells in humans, and that IP3R directly contributes to the amount of calcium released.
They discovered a sub-type of IP3R, or IP3R3, to be very active among brain cancer patients and that caffeine stymies the spread of such compounds, resulting in less tumour growth in the brain and blocks cancer cells from spreading to other parts of the body, reports Xinhua. "This is the first type of discovery showing caffeine to have an inhibitive effect on the growth of glioblastoma, and thus, we expect it to have monumental impact on related studies," said Lee Chang-joon, who led the study. The researchers said that the amounts of caffeine used in the animal tests were somewhere in the range of two to five cups of coffee or green tea consumed on average by humans per day.

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