Yes, this is completely true! I also found out that when I drink 6 cups of coffee, it alleviates “butt-pucker-ites”. That’s a condition that strikes older individuals. 6 cups of coffee prevents the butt from pucking up when passing gas. How cool is that!

I can't even drink 2 or 3 cups. My gods, how do people drink 5?

Who comes up with these idiotic studies. We all know that drinking too much coffee has been pegged as bad in numerous studies. It must be the coffee industry that funds these things. I am not saying there might not be some truth to this but there are plenty of ways to reduce the likelihood of getting cancer and binging on coffee is just not a good one. Do they look at what these subjects are doing in other ways to reduce their risk? If you are not eating a good diet then piling coffee on top of it and saying it makes it better is just bad science.

Is this really useful information? Coffee causes one type of breast cancer and prevents a different type of breast cancer? Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

If I drink that much coffee per day, I won't be able to read my own writing or hold a cohesive conversation, but hey, if it lowers my risk and raises my stock...

I'm very curious to know what size "cups" were involved. A 6oz, 8oz, 12oz, etc. Most "coffee cups" we use are of the standard 12oz mug variety. It would make a big difference if they were referring to 5 12oz "mugs" vs. 5 6oz "cups".

Does anyone know the answer to this? Thanks.

Does this include decaf? If I drank that much regular coffee, I'd never sleep! Yikes.

They might not get cancer, but will not survive the sleep deprivation.

I'm so sick of reading this kind of crap.... and doing crack might make people happy. If you have facts, then write a story about it.

Heck yeah MSNBC, finally an article that I love. Lets see if I drink 5 cups a day, which I do, and smoke a few cigs, it cancels itself out. Also it clears you out pretty good too.

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Now that's what I'm talking about. fire up the pot! My cup is waiting.

I can't stand these studies. That caffeine may prevent breast cancer but:

1. That much caffeine daily will burn out your adrenal glands making you tired, unable to handle stress well, mental fog, lack of energy, increased food allergies, decreased sex drive, increased food cravings, decreased ability to recover from illness, or muscular weakness, among other things.
2. That much caffeine daily will cause insomnia which can cause heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes, among other things.
3. That much caffeine daily will raise your blood pressure, thicken your blood by raising level of fatty acids in the blood, irritate stomach lining, makes digestion less effective, among other things.
4. That much caffeine daily has been reported by the AMA to decrease bone density (or osteoporosis) in women.

I think that the best thing for most people to avoid breast cancer is to eat better foods and stay away from any kind of pseudo-drug, such as caffeine, and keep hormones in check.

haaa! that much coffee per day will certainly wreak havoc with your heart.

bullsheet.

As a medical first responder we had a call on a younger guy one day with arrhythmia and shortness of breath.  After a full checkout by the paramedics and finding "nothing" wrong.  I proceeded to ask him some basic questions about what he had to eat that morning.  Nothing to eat.  Anything to drink?  Yeah, 5 cups of coffee.  The paramedics just stared at him and said, yeah, you're going to have to quit that.  We never had another 911 call on him again.

I am a 5-cup a dayer. Yeah I don't worry about breast cancer at all since I am a guy, just it causes big swelling for overuse of another of my bodily protrusion.

I don't know about you folks but I am sick and tired of these stupid bullcrap "STUDIES".

Almost every damn study will have another study next week that will say the complete opposite. Remember wine?

Stop wasteing taxpayers money on this crap!

As a young 30yr old women who has survived breast cancer, i am troubled by published studies such as these. The fact is, women over 50 IN GENERAL have a higher incidence of cancer anyway, and many of them will be estrogen-neg because they are probably close to menopause.

If they really wanted use this topic in a actually helpful manner, they would look at a study of women who started drinking coffee at a young age, and it's long term effect on getting cancer for the future. DONT BELIEVE THIS BIASED STUDY. The best fight against cancer is early detection, women & men push for ultrasounds if you feel something different.

And, by the way TF-1561528, if your mother has the BRCA gene, she has a 50% chance of passing it to YOU, even if your MALE, and so you are also at high risk of getting breast cancer FYI

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