The 116 things that can give you cancer, A MUST READ for all.

Thursday, October 29, 2015-Many people reeled in shock when it was revealed the World Health Organisation had classed processed meat  as a cancer risk, alongside smoking. 

As if that wasn't bad enough, we also found we can't trust exactly what goes into our sausages.

The sausage problem still hasn't been solved, but people worried about processed meat can either relax about the fact a lot of things we encounter pose a cancer risk, or freak out that there is a list of 116 everyday objects and activities which can give us cancer. 

The International Agency for Research on Cancer  has released a list of these for our perusal. Red meat doesn't feature, although processed meat does, because red meat is only probably linked to the diseases. 

The list does however include contraception, smoking, sunbeds, the very air we breathe - if we live in a polluted city - solar energy from the sun, and many more objects and activities many of us encounter in our day-to-day lives.

This list doesn't include probable cancer risks - everything featured definitely causes cancer.

1. Sunlamps and sunbeds
2. Aluminium production
3. Arsenic in drinking water
4. Auramine production
5. Boot and shoe manufacture and repair
6. Chimney sweeping
7. Coal gasification
8. Coal tar distillation
9. Coke (fuel) production
10.  Furniture and cabinet making
11.  Haematite mining (underground) with exposure to radon
12.  Secondhand smoke
13.  Iron and steel founding
14.  Isopropanol manufacture (strong-acid process)
15. Magenta dye manufacturing
16. Occupational exposure as a painter
17.  Paving and roofing with a coal tar pitch.
18. Tobacco smoking
19. Processed meat.
20. Rubber industry
21. Occupational exposure of strong inorganic acid mists containing sulphuric acid
22. Naturally occurring mixtures of aflatoxins (produced by funghi)
23. . Alcoholic beverages
24.  Areca nut - often chewed with betel leaf
25. Betel quid without tobacco
26. Betel quid with tobacco
27.  Coal tar pitches
28. Coal tars
29.  Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal
30. Diesel exhaust
31. Mineral oils, untreated and mildly treated
32.  Phenacetin, a pain and fever reducing drug
33.  Plants containing aristolochic acid (used in Chinese herbal medicine)
34.  Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - widely used in electrical equipment in the past, banned in many countries in the 1970s
35. Chinese-style salted fish
36. Shale oils
37. 3Soots
38. Smokeless tobacco products
39.  Wood dust
40. Processed meat
41. Acetaldehyde
42. 4-Aminobiphenyl
43. Aristolochic acids and plants containing them
44. Asbestos
45. Arsenic and arsenic compounds
46.  AzathioprineBenzene
47. Benzidine
48. Benzo[a]pyrene
49. Beryllium and beryllium compounds
50. Bis(chloromethyl)ether
51. Chloromethyl methyl ether
52. 1,3-Butadiene
53. 1,4-Butanediol dimethanesulfonate (Busulphan, Myleran)
54. Cadmium and cadmium compounds
55. Chlornapazine (N,N-Bis(2-chloroethyl)-2-naphthylamine)
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)
62. Cyclophosphamide
63. Diethylstilboestrol
64. Dyes metabolized to benzidine
65. Epstein-Barr virus
66. Oestrogens, nonsteroidal
67. Oestrogens, steroidal
68. Oestrogen therapy, postmenopausal
69. Ethanol in alcoholic beverages
70. Erionite
71. Ethylene oxide
72. Etoposide alone and in combination with cisplatin and bleomycin
73. Formaldehyde
74. Gallium arsenide
75. Helicobacter pylori (infection with)
76. Hepatitis B virus (chronic infection with)
77. Hepatitis C virus (chronic infection with)
78. Herbal remedies containing plant species of the genus Aristolochia
79. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (infection with)
80. Human papillomavirus type 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 66
81. Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-I
82. Melphalan
83. Methoxsalen (8-Methoxypsoralen) plus ultraviolet A-radiation
84. 4,4’-methylene-bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA)
85. MOPP and other combined chemotherapy including alkylating agents
86. Mustard gas (sulphur mustard)
87. 2-Naphthylamine
88. Neutron radiation
89. Nickel compounds
90. 4-(N-Nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)
91. N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN)
92. Opisthorchis viverrini (infection with)
93. Outdoor air pollution
94. Particulate matter in outdoor air pollution
95. Phosphorus-32, as phosphate
96. Plutonium-239 and its decay products (may contain plutonium-240 and other isotopes), as aerosols
97. Radioiodines, short-lived isotopes, including iodine-131, from atomic reactor accidents and nuclear weapons detonation (exposure during childhood)
98. Radionuclides, α-particle-emitting, internally deposited
99. Radionuclides, β-particle-emitting, internally deposited
100. Radium-224 and its decay products
101. Radium-226 and its decay products
102. Radium-228 and its decay products
103. Radon-222 and its decay products
104. Schistosoma haematobium (infection with)
105. Silica, crystalline (inhaled in the form of quartz or cristobalite from occupational sources)
106. Solar radiation
107. Talc containing asbestiform fibres
108. Tamoxifen
109. 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin
110. Thiotepa (1,1’,1”-phosphinothioylidynetrisaziridine)
111. Thorium-232 and its decay products, administered intravenously as a colloidal dispersion of thorium-232 dioxide
112. Treosulfan
113. Ortho-toluidine
114. Vinyl chloride
115. Ultraviolet radiation
116. X-radiation and gamma radiation