Could Foods That Stain Your Teeth Cause Pancreatic Cancer?

Within the last ten years, white teeth are considered "the cat's meow" and people are paying large amounts of money to keep their teeth white.  With all the money going into teeth whitening, some favorable drinks cause staining of your teeth.  Drinking coffee has been known as one of those favorable drinks.  This is not that much of a problem because teeth cleanings and teeth polishing is what it takes to get the coffee stains off.
 

Other than the effects on your teeth that coffee has, there have also been studies indicating that coffee has a correlation with pancreatic cancer.  Since pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis, there are always investigations on what could contribute to this disease.

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 35,000 people each year in the United States and over 213,000 people worldwide.  This correlation has been a causal relationship that may exist between coffee consumption and pancreatic cancer, according to NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information.  A relationship that has needed more studies for proof.

The Lancet calls this an old notion that coffee is associated with pancreatic cancer has faded, but the drink has been studied in the context of, for example, heart attacks, gallstones, cirrhosis, cognitive function, memory loss, and rheumatoid arthritis—with both positive (association) and negative (protection) results.
What I have found is the U.S. believes that the link between cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer is not related, where other countries, like the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Canada believe that the link between cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer is related.

 

The Netherlands - Pancreatic cancer and tobacco smoke is related

For instance, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, documents that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, is associated with increased risk of pancreatic cancer and that risk is reduced to levels of never smokers within 5 years of quitting.

Canada - Pancreatic cancer and tobacco is related

The University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada concludes that the incidence of pancreatic cancer in Canada from 1992 to 2005 remained relatively stable, although the incidence decreased somewhat in men, perhaps as a result of a change in smoking behavior.

United States - Pancreatic cancer has a weak association with tobacco smoking

Although the School of Public Health and Health Services a the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. states that a number of cancers showed a weak association with cigarette smoking, such as pancreatic and liver cancer.

United Kingdom - Pancreatic cancer and tobacco smoking are related

 

A newer publication in the NCBI from the  Population Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia in the U.K., states that there was no evidence linking alcohol or coffee consumption with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, while cigarette smoking is a well-established risk factor for pancreatic cancer.  Alcohol doesn't stain your teeth and it appears to be responsible only for a small fraction of all pancreatic cancers. 

 

Smokeless tobacco harms teeth and mouth

Smokeless tobacco, however, contains a lot of sugar which forms an acid that may eat away at the enamel, according to the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.  Smokeless tobacco causes oral lesions and oral and pancreatic cancer, states the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.


And yes, the National Cancer Institute confirms that smokeless tobacco users have stained teeth in the area where they hold the smokeless tobacco in their mouth.



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