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Soft drinks 'can increase pancreatic cancer risk' | Consuming sugary soft drinks can dramatically increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, a new research has suggested. According to the study, drinking as little as two soft drinks a week can almost double the chances of developing the disease, one of the most deadly forms of cancer. Mark
Pereira, senior author on the study and associate professor in the School of Public
Health at the University of Minnesota, said people who consume soft drinks on
a regular basis, defined as primarily carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages, tend
to have a poor behavioral profile overall. However, the effect of these drinks
on pancreatic cancer may be unique. "The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may
be increasing the level of insulin in the body, which we think contributes to
pancreatic cancer cell growth," said Pereira. For the study, Pereira and colleagues
followed 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study for 14 years.
During that time, there were 140 pancreatic cancer cases. Those who consumed two
or more soft drinks per week (averaging five per week) had an 87 percent increased
risk compared with individuals who did not. No association was seen between fruit
juice consumption and pancreatic cancer. The study has been published in Cancer
Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for
Cancer Research. |
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