Hot drinks 'linked to throat cancer', warns WHO

Beverages drunk at more than 65C can double the risk – but cancer is taken off the danger list

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Drinking scalding hot drinks can "probably" lead to throat cancer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.

Researchers first proposed the idea in 2009, when the Daily Telegraph reported a study of almost 900 Australians that had found a link between throat cancer and very hot tea.

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