Drinking more sugary drinks, like soda and fruit juice, might raise your chance of getting cancer by 18% for every extra 100 mL you drink each day, according to a big study that followed over 100,000 adults in France for about 5 years.

Drinking sugary drinks like soda might raise your chance of getting cancer by about 12% compared to drinking very little, according to a big review of many studies.

Drinking sugary drinks might increase your chance of getting cancer because of the sugar they contain. For every extra spoonful of sugar you drink daily, your cancer risk could go up by 16%. When scientists looked just at the sugar part, the link between sugary drinks and cancer disappeared, which points to sugar as the main reason for this connection.

Drinking one more sugary drink every day might raise your chance of getting cancer by about 4%, according to research that looked at many studies tracking people's habits over time.

Drinking a lot of sugary drinks like soda might make you more likely to get certain types of cancer, including breast, liver, colon, and prostate cancer.

Drinking diet sodas and other artificially sweetened drinks doesn't seem to raise your cancer risk based on this study, but they didn't look at people who drank a lot of them.