Hot beverages increase risk of cancer? New research provides in-dept details

Dr Oscar Duke, a health expert, recently claimed that having hot drinks such as tea and coffee increases the chances of cancer.

Cancer Research UK funded new research, published this week, which stated that people who consume hot beverages have a 1.7 times higher risk of cancer.

As per the research, people who drink warm rather than very hot drinks have a comparatively lesser risk, while having six or more than hot drinks in a day adds fuel to the impending danger.

Duke joined BBC Morning Live, where he explained, “It’s talking about oesophageal cancer risk. So, that’s cancer of the food pipe. Um, and one specific cancer of the food pipe which is important when we think about the numbers overall.”

“So this is a study come from Oxford University looking at 977,000 individuals so you know nearly a million people to work out whether very hot drinks particularly those over 65 degrees which you know you might be if you’ve just boiled your kettle might increase the risk of cancer within that food pipe,” he shared.

Duke went on to reveal that hot drinks cause serious damage to cells in the throat and “the surface of the food pipe which then might go on to form cancer.”

He added, “Now they did find in people who are having very hot drinks a three times increase in one type of oesophageal cancer something called a squamous cell cancer of the oesophagus.”

“Now it’s important when you look at any of these data you know three times you think that’s terrifying throwing your cups of tea away as we speak but hold on for a second,” the doctor noted.

It is pertinent to mention that squamous cell cancer, which is potentially very serious cancer, is not the most common type of oesophageal cancer.