Scald Your Cuppa Triple Your Risk: Oxford Study Sounds Alarm on Very Hot Drinks and Oesophageal Cancer

Drinking tea or coffee "very hot" triples the risk of developing oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma, according to the world's largest study of the link — conducted on nearly 980,000 UK participants over 14 years.

Led by Dr Keren Papier at the University of Oxford's population health department and published in the International Journal of Cancer, the research found that consuming drinks at a "very hot" versus "warm" temperature was associated with a **threefold greater...