《中英對照讀新聞》Drinking coffee may lower ovarian cancer risk喝咖啡或能降低卵巢癌的罹患率

◎ 魏國金

Caffeine appears to lower a woman’s chances of developing ovarian cancer, U.S. researchers said, while smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol do not.

美國研究人員指出，咖啡因似乎能降低婦女罹患卵巢癌的機率，然而抽菸、喝酒則無此功效。

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The benefit seemed strongest for women who had never used oral contraceptives or postmenopausal hormones, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer.

這個好處似乎對未曾使用口服避孕藥或停經後荷爾蒙補充劑的婦女最明顯，研究人員於「癌症」期刊撰文指出。

"With regard to caffeine and caffeine-containing beverages, we generally observed a lower risk of ovarian cancer with increasing intake," Shelley Tworoger of Harvard Medical School and colleagues wrote.

「關於咖啡因與含咖啡因的飲料，我們廣泛的觀察到，攝取量增加，卵巢癌的罹患機率也更低，」哈佛醫學院的圖洛格與其同僚寫道。

The team examined data taken from health questionnaires of more than 121,000 women aged 30-35. The researchers found no significant link between current or past smoking or drinking and overall ovarian cancer risk, though cigarettes seemed to raise the likelihood of one rare form of the disease.

該研究小組檢視逾12萬1千名年齡在30至35歲婦女的健康問卷資料。研究人員發現，目前或過去抽菸、飲酒與卵巢癌整體罹患機率並沒有明顯的關聯，雖然抽菸似乎會提高該疾病某種罕見類型的罹患可能性。

Risk also appeared to decline the more total caffeine and coffee a woman consumed, the study found. Decaffeinated coffee had no apparent benefit.

研究發現，婦女攝取越多的咖啡因與咖啡，該機率似乎也越降低。不過，去除咖啡因的咖啡則無此明顯效用。

新聞辭典

with regard to︰關於、至於、就…而論，等同 in regard to、in respect to。例句︰It is going to raise a lot of problems with regard to atmosphere pollution.（這將引起許多大氣污染方面的問題。）

likelihood︰可能性。in all likelihood 十之八九，極有可能。例句︰In all likelihood, it will rain.（十之八九要下雨了。）

decaffeinated︰去除咖啡因的。de-有去除、脫離、否定、取消之意，比如︰derail（脫軌）、devaluate（貶值）。