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A growing body of observational evidence links coffee consumption with lower risks of several cancers, particularly hepatocellular and endometrial cancer, but experts caution that current data do not justify prescribing coffee as a cancer-prevention strategy.

A long-term analysis of nearly 160,000 US postmenopausal women found that brain and central nervous system cancer risk increased with higher residential radon concentrations, adding to limited evidence that radon may affect organs beyond the lung.

Analysis of postmenopausal ovarian tissue from 28 women found that ovaries continue to undergo molecular remodeling decades after menopause, with age-related increases in inflammatory and tissue-remodeling pathways that overlap with biologic processes observed in ovarian cancer.

Among nearly 1 million UK adults, preference for very hot beverages and consumption of at least six hot drinks daily were associated with higher esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk, but not materially with adenocarcinoma.

A meta-analysis of 14 observational studies found that very high chili pepper consumption was associated with increased gastrointestinal cancer risk, particularly esophageal cancer. The findings were observational and did not establish a causal relationship between chili pepper intake and cancer development.

TNF-alpha inhibitor exposure was associated with adjusted hazard ratios of 1.99 for basal cell carcinoma, 1.69 for squamous cell carcinoma, and 1.54 for melanoma in a 56,209-patient retrospective cohort.