Drinking more sugary drinks might raise the chance of getting breast cancer, especially in younger women who haven't gone through menopause. For every extra small cup (100 mL) per day, the risk goes...

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 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 a lot of sugary drinks like soda might make you more likely to die from cancer, especially breast cancer.

Drinking more sugary drinks each day might slightly raise your chances of getting certain cancers, but the increase is small and other factors could be involved.

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.