Consumption of artificial sweetener– and sugar-containing soda and risk of lymphoma and leukemia in men and women

Background: Despite safety reports of the artificial sweetener aspartame, health-related concerns remain.Objective: We prospectively evaluated whether the consumption of aspartame- and sugar-containing soda is associated with risk of hematopoetic cancers.Design: We repeatedly assessed diet in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS). Over 22 y, we identified 1324 non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs), 285 multiple...