Bassett JK, et al. - Researchers investigated if the consumption of sugar-sweetened or artificially-sweetened soft drinks was linked with cancers other than those currently identified as being related to obesity. Using the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, they obtained data of 35,109 eligible participants who developed 4,789 cancers not related to obesity during 19 years of follow-up. At baseline, participants completed a 121-item food-frequency questionnaire that included separate questions about the number of times in the past year they had consumed sugar-sweetened and artificially-sweetened soft drinks. The analysis revealed no correlation between the frequency of consuming sugar-sweetened soft drinks and the risk of these cancers; however, an unexpected positive association for the consumption of artificially-sweetened soft drinks was observed. The findings of this work do not clarify whether consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks affects cancer risk independently of their influence on body size.