Although researchers cannot say why, it appears that drinking lots of fluids over a lifetime lowers the risk of bladder cancer in some men.
An excess of 2,531 milliliters per day was the drawing line for what was considered a daily high fluid intake, and this amount was associated with a 24 percent reduced risk of developing bladder cancer.
The conclusion comes from data derived from the almost 48,000 men who took part in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS) over a 22-year span. HPFS is a long-term study that looked at the health of men who worked in the health industry and who were between 40 and 75 years old in 1986 when HPFS was launched.
One of the study's authors hypothesized that it is possible a high fluid intake was helping to flush potential cancer-causing substances from the bladder before they can cause cancer to develop.
The study was presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held 22-25 October 2011.
Source: Medical News Today
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