As someone who got top grades in science classes, and a follower of science news for decades, I’ve never heard of temperature being a risk factor for cancer.
That said, it does make sense. Heat can cause damage to cells just like many chemicals can. I just don’t think many people connected the dots.
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I thought this was well known.
Anecdata, but my wife's grandmother famously liked her coffee pretty much scalding, and we did indeed lose her to esophageal cancer.
As someone who got top grades in science classes, and a follower of science news for decades, I’ve never heard of temperature being a risk factor for cancer.
That said, it does make sense. Heat can cause damage to cells just like many chemicals can. I just don’t think many people connected the dots.
I did biomed in uni 10 years ago and they did indeed speak about this as a risk factor in my clinical microbiology class.
I assumed that was what gave my dad throat cancer because he was always gulping down hot coffee but the cause was something else in the end.