29 Oct 2015

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See The Full List Of 116 Things That Cause Cancer

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From contraceptive pills, to alcohol and cigarette smoke,  this is the list of things which the World Health Organisation (WHO) researchers and experts say are the causes of cancer.
 If you recall, there was general outrage some days back when WHO said we should stop eating suya because it also triggers cancer. After going through the list, I wonder if there is anything remaining that does NOT cause cancer. 

See full list below; 


1. Tobacco smoking
 2. Sunlamps and sunbeds 
3. Aluminium production 
4. Arsenic in drinking water 
5. Auramine production 
6. Boot and shoe manufacture and repair 
7. Chimney sweeping 
8. Coal gasification 
9. Coal tar distillation 
10. Coke (fuel) production 
11. Furniture and cabinet making 
12. Haematite mining (underground) with exposure to radon
 13. Secondhand smoke 
14. Iron and steel founding 
15. Isopropanol manufacture (strong-acid process) 
16. Magenta dye manufacturing
 17. Occupational exposure as a painter
 18. Paving and roofing with coal-tar pitch
 19. Rubber industry 
20. Occupational exposure of strong inorganic acid mists containing sulphuric acid 
21. Naturally occurring mixtures of aflatoxins (produced by funghi)
 22. Alcoholic beverages 

23. Areca nut - often chewed with betel leaf

24. Betel quid without tobacco

25. Betel quid with tobacco

26. Coal tar pitches

27. Coal tars

28. Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal

29. Diesel exhaust

30. Mineral oils, untreated and mildly treated

31. Phenacetin, a pain and fever reducing drug

32. Plants containing aristolochic acid (used in Chinese herbal medicine)

33. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - widely used in electrical equipment in the past, banned in many countries in the 1970s

34. Chinese-style salted fish

35. Shale oils

36. Soots

37. Smokeless tobacco products

38. Wood dust

39. Processed meat

40. Acetaldehyde

41. 4-Aminobiphenyl

42. Aristolochic acids and plants containing them

43. Asbestos
44. Arsenic and arsenic compounds

45. Azathioprine

46. Benzene

47. Benzidine

48. Benzo[a]pyrene

49. Beryllium and beryllium compounds

50. Chlornapazine (N,N-Bis(2-chloroethyl)-2-naphthylamine)

51. Bis(chloromethyl)ether

52. Chloromethyl methyl ether

53. 1,3-Butadiene

54. 1,4-Butanediol dimethanesulfonate (Busulphan, Myleran)

55. Cadmium and cadmium compounds

56. Chlorambucil

57. Methyl-CCNU (1-(2-Chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea; Semustine)

58. Chromium(VI) compounds

59. Ciclosporin

60. Contraceptives, hormonal, combined forms (those containing both oestrogen and a progestogen)

61. Contraceptives, oral, sequential forms of hormonal contraception (a period of oestrogen-only followed by a period of both oestrogen and a progestogen) 
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