Very hot drinks probably cause cancer

PARIS: Drinking very hot beverages “probably” causes cancer of the esophagus, the United Nation’s cancer agency said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), while lifting suspicion from coffee if consumed at “normal serving temperatures.”

“These results suggest that drinking very hot beverages is one probable cause of esophageal cancer and that it is the temperature, rather than the drinks themselves, that appears to be responsible,” said Christopher Wild, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).