New York: US researchers say men who drink more than 2.5 liters or 10 glasses of low-sugar fluids every day are at a significant lower risk of developing bladder cancer.
This could be because the liquid flushes any cancer-causing agents out of the bladder before they are able to cause any harm, researchers suggested.
In conducting the study, Jiachen Zhou, a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at Brown University, and colleagues evaluated the fluid intake of nearly 48,000 men who were part of a long-term study.
“The fluids may flush out potential carcinogens before they have the opportunity to cause tissue damage that could lead to bladder cancer,” Zhou said.
The men, who were aged 40 to 75 when they enrolled in the study in 1986, answered a questionnaire about their fluid intake every four years for more than two decades.
The investigators found that the men with a high daily fluid intake, or those who drank more than 10 cups (2,531 milliliters) per day, had a 24 percent reduced risk for bladder cancer.
The study authors concluded that doctors should tell their patients to drink plenty of low-sugar fluids.
Although this link between fluid intake and bladder cancer risk was discovered 10 years ago, the association, the study found, was stronger among younger men.
This could be due to the fact that the men drank less as they aged, particularly water, the researchers pointed out in a news release from the American Association for Cancer Research.
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