Added sugar in foods and beverages has been linked to cancer. None of this sugar is needed nutritionally - there is plenty of sugar in natural products (such as fruits).
MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLES ON SUGAR AND CANCER
The interplay of dietary sugar, chronic inflammation, and bladder cancer: mechanistic insights, evidence, and prevention strategies
- Frontiers in Immunology, Feb 2026
Dietary sugar intervention: a promising approach for cancer therapy
- Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer, Oct 2025
Dietary glycemic index, glycemic load, sugar, and fiber intake in association with breast cancer risk: an updated meta-analysis
- Nutrition Reviews, Jul 2025
Sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages in relation to premature aging in adult survivors of childhood cancer
- British J. of Cancer, Oct 2024
Intake of sugar and food sources of sugar and colorectal cancer risk in the multiethnic cohort study
- Journal of Nutrition, August 2024
Consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and risk of gastrointestinal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
- Oncology, 2024
Total sugar, added sugar, fructose, and sucrose intake and all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
- Nutrition, Jul 2023
Sugar intake and colorectal cancer risk: A prospective Japanese cohort study.
- Cancer Science, June 2023
Sugar- and artificially-sweetened beverages and cancer mortality in a large USA prospective cohort
- Caner Epidemiology Biomarkets Preview, Oct 2022
Sweetened beverage consumption and risk of liver cancer by diabetes status: A pooled analysis
- Cancer Epidemiology, Aug 2022
Sweetened beverage consumption and risk of liver cancer by diabetes status: a pooled analysis
- Cancer Epidemiology, August 2022
Sweet beverages and cancer: a scoping review of quantitative studies
- Cancer Prevention Research, Jun 2022
Simple sugar intake and cancer incidence, cancer mortality and all-cause mortality: A cohort study from the PREDIMED trial
- Clinical Nutrition, Oct 2021
Simple sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage intake during adolescence and risk of colorectal cancer precursors
- Gastroenterology, Jul 2021
Total and added sugar intakes, sugar types, and cancer risk: results from the prospective NutriNet-Sante cohort
- American J. Clinical Nutrition, Nov 2020
Consumption of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of cancers not related to obesity
- International J. Cancer, Jun 2020
Concentrated sugars and incidence of prostate cancer in a prospective cohort
- British J. Nutrition, Sep 2018
Consumption of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of obesity-related cancers
- Public Health and Nutrition, Jun 2018
Sweetened beverage consumption and risk of biliary tract and gallbladder cancer in a prospective study
- J. National Cancer Institute, Jun 2016
Simple sugar intake and hepatocellular carcinoma: epidemiological and mechanistic insight
- Nutrients, Dec 2014
Consumption of sugary foods and drinks and risk of endometrial cancer
- Cancer Causes and Control, Jul 2013
Added sugar, glycemic index and load in colon cancer risk
- Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care, Jul 2012
Refined fructose and cancer
- Expert Opin Ther Targets, Sept 2011
Sucrose, high-sugar foods, and risk of endometrial cancer--a population-based cohort study
- Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev., Sep 2011
Sugar fuels cancer
- Cancer, March 2009
Added sugar and sugar-sweetened foods and beverages and the risk of pancreatic cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study
- American J. Clinical Nutrition, Aug 2008
Consumption of sugar and sugar-sweetened foods and the risk of pancreatic cancer in a prospective study
- Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, Nov 2006
Cancer's molecular sweet tooth and the Warburg effect [how cancer cells avidly consume glucose and produce lactic acid under aerobic conditions]
- Cancer Research, Sep 2006
Sugar consumption and human cancer in sites other than the digestive tract
- European J. Cancer Prevention, Aug 1998
Dietary sugar and lung cancer: a case-control study in Uruguay
- Nutrition and Cancer, 1998
Sugar consumption and cancers of the digestive tract
- European J. Cancer Prevention, Oct 1997
Diet and breast cancer: the possible connection with sugar consumption
- Medical Hypotheses, July 1983
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