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Story summary
- Oxford researchers found that drinking beverages at 65 °C or hotter triples oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk.
- Participants who consumed six or more hot drinks daily had a 71% higher SCC risk.
- Hot drinkers faced about 1.7 times the SCC risk of warm-drink consumers.
- Cancer Research UK funded the study.
- Experts advise letting drinks cool or adding cold milk to lower risk.
