A study of nearly a million people has found new evidence to suggest that drinking scalding hot coffees and teas could significantly increase a person’s risk of getting cancer in their esophagus.
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Drinking very hot beverages could triple cancer risk, large study finds
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Drinking very hot tea and coffee is linked to a greater risk of esophageal cancer
Research finds temperature and amount of hot drinks consumed heightens possibility of developing disease Drinking very hot tea and coffee triples the risk of developing cancer of the gullet, the world’s largest study of the link between them has found.
A study of nearly a million people has found new evidence to suggest that drinking scalding hot coffees and teas could significantly increase a person’s risk of getting cancer in their esophagus.
The core risk is not tea or coffee themselves but heat: repeatedly bathing the esophagus in very hot liquid plausibly injures the tissue, and a growing body of human evidence links that thermal exposure to higher rates of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
That morning brew may be doing you more harm than good. A study of almost 1 million tea and coffee drinkers has linked very hot drinks to a threefold greater risk of developing one type of esophageal cancer.
A University of Oxford study of nearly 1 million adults links very hot tea and coffee to a threefold higher risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
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