The pancreas is an organ central to processing sugar. Therefore, this is not a shocking report.
Nonetheless, it’s one more reason to eliminate (or at least cut back on) sugary drinks in favor of fruit juice, water, or even tea and coffee.
Chinese men and women living in Singapore who drank two or more soft drinks per week were 87% more likely to contract pancreatic cancer after the researchers adjusted for factors such as smoking (95% CI 1.10 to 3.15), according to the report published Feb. 8 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
“In this large prospective cohort of Chinese men and women in Singapore, those who reported regular soft drink consumption were at increased risk of pancreatic cancer when compared with those who largely abstained,” Mark Pereira, PhD, of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and colleagues wrote. “There was no association between consumption of juice and risk of pancreatic cancer.”
While pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, it is one of the most deadly cancers, with less than 5% of patients surviving five years after diagnosis.
