soft drinks can cause pancreatic cancer

A study in Singapore had found that drinking sugared soft drinks can cause pancreatic cancer. It was led by the University of Minnesota which followed some 60,000 people in Singapore for 14 years.

Drinking more than two soft drinks a week can increase 87 percent higher chance of getting pancreatic cancer. The article is on Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

The conclusions were drawn using data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study at the National University of Singapore, which is a broad, long term project on cancer.

In this particular study, the theory is that sugar may increase pancreatic cancer cells.

But one leading oncologist in Singapore says it is too early to draw this link.

A lot of people disagree with this statement because if sugar is the cause of pancreatic cancer , so other diets such as rice also have a lot of glucose which increase the level of sugar

Besides sugar, other studies have linked the disease with eating burnt red meat as well.

Pancreatic cancer sufferers have a low survival rate, and the illness is said to affect some 230,000 people globally. 

(Pancreatic cancer is cancer of the pancreas)