Coffee and tea drinking and risk of prostate cancer in a large European health study

Among 142,196 men, 7,036 cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed over 14 years of follow-up.

• Median coffee intake was 375 mL/day, while median tea intake was 106 mL/day, with significant country-to-country variation.
• Comparing high consumers of coffee (855 mL/day) to low consumers (103 mL/day), the hazard ratio for total prostate cancer was 1.02 (95% CI, 0.94-1.09).
• For tea, the hazard ratio for total prostate cancer comparing high (450 mL/day) to low consumers (12 mL/day) was 0.98 (95% CI, 0.90-1.07).
• No evidence of association was found between coffee or tea consumption and the risk of total prostate cancer, its stage, grade, or fatality.
• Further investigations may be necessary to explore potential associations related to different preparations or specific constituents of coffee and tea.

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