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Tea has been linked to a host of health benefits, from heart health to cavity prevention. But a new report from the International Journal of Cancer warns that you need to be drinking your tea a certain way: cooler than 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
The report claims that if you drink three cups of tea or more at a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit or higher each day, your risk of having esophageal cancer shoots up by 90%.
So how worried should tea lovers really be? Health spoke to Brian Henick, MD, a medical oncologist who specializes in esophageal cancer and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, to find out.
For starters, Dr. Henick says, the new research might not be applicable to people all around the world. The study participants live in Iran’s Golestan Province, an area with a higher-than-usual esophageal cancer rate. Some people even call the region the participants live in the “esophageal cancer belt,” Dr. Henick says.
In the area, there are between 14 and 17 cases of esophageal cancer per 100,000 people, according to a 2015 report, whereas in the U.S., there are just four cases per 100,000 people, according to the National Cancer Institute. In the U.S., about 17,650 new cases of esophageal cancer will be diagnosed this year, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), with more men affected than women.
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