Coffee and Pancreatic Cancer Risk

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COFFEE AND PANCREATIC CANCER JoAnn Guest Jan 08, 2005 22:53 PST

 

 

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When coffee is roasted, the carcinogen 3,4 benzopyrene is formed. There

have also been identified two other possible carcinogens found in

coffee.

 

In 1981 I had an exchange with Professor Brian MacMahon of the Harvard

School of Public Health. He had done a study in the Boston area and had

found that the drinking of three cups of coffee a day increased the risk

of pancreatic cancer by a factor of 2.7.

 

He felt that coffee drinking was the cause of 50% of all pancreatic

cancers. He stopped drinking coffee and replaced coffee with tea in his

office.

 

 

In England prior to 1948 people there drank tea and very little coffee.

However, after 1948, there was a vast increase in coffee drinking in

England, Dr. Tim Spencer of the St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London in

1981 cast much light on the MacMahon study. He plotted the importation

of coffee into England between 1948 and 1973.

 

During that time, the importation of coffee increased by 120%. Also

during that time the death rate from pancreatic cancer in England

increased by 50%.

 

Dr. A.J. McMichael in Australia reviewed the MacMahon and Spencer

reports and had this to add. He gave reference that coffee drinking

increased the production of the intestinal hormone, gastrin.

 

He said that with minor animals, coffee stimulates the production of

gastrin, and gastrin stimulates pancreatic hyperplasia and neoplasia.

 

In 1985 Ana Marie Comary Schally of Tulane University reported that

pancreatic cancer seems to be hormone induced.

She and others in Mexico then treated a few far-advanced patients with

pancreatic cancer with liver metastases, with the LH-RH agonist

D-Trp-6-LH-RH. A few long lasting remissions were obtained.

 

Coffee drinking in the USA has remained much the same over the past 100

years but during that time there has been a vast increase in deaths from

pancreatic cancer.

 

It is suggested that the same thing is happening with pancreatic cancer

as has happened with lung cancer and that this increase in pancreatic

cancer has been the result of the combination of coffee drinking and the

three-fold increase of immuno-suppressive polyunsaturated fats in the

diet.

 

There is a reference to support this concept. D.F. Brik of our National

Cancer Institute had reported in 1981 that pancreatic cancer increased

when corn oil was added to the diet of golden hamsters.

 

From an article published by the Townsend Letter, " Some Real Causes of

heart Disease & Cancer " , by Wayne Martin

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