Over decades and across more than 112,000 lives, a pattern has quietly emerged in the data: those who reach daily for a sugary drink face roughly two and a half times the risk of developing gastric cancer compared to those who rarely do. Published in Gastro Hep Advances, this marks the first time such an association has been documented in an American population, extending a growing body of evidence that links sugar-sweetened beverages to cancers beyond the ones already familiar to researchers. The findings cannot yet prove cause, but they deepen a question humanity is only beginning to take se
Daily sugary drinks linked to 2.45x higher gastric cancer risk in major study
278 participants developed gastric cancer during the multi-decade follow-up period among the study cohort.