Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health after conducting a US study have stated that for keeping the risk of prostate cancer low, coffee can be of great help.

The study said that the most lethal form of prostate cancer was developed by men who had coffee by about 60 per cent less as compared to men who restrained from the beverage. The total cups one consumed were about six or more every day. Apart from the most lethal kinds, other forms of the cancer was also developed about 20 per cent less by coffee drinkers.

There were 30 per cent lesser chances of having lethal prostate cancer among men who consumed just one to three cups per day.

Harvard associate professor and senior author Lorelei Mucci said, “Few studies have specifically studied the association of coffee intake and the risk of lethal prostate cancer, the form of the disease that is the most critical to prevent. Our study is the largest to date to examine whether coffee could lower the risk of lethal prostate cancer.”

Coffee whether caffeinated or decaffeinated, did not matter as both had the same effects.