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1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

296 points · 158 comments · colinprince

  1. toasty228 · · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oatext.com&#x2F;which-environment-makes-cancer.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oatext.com&#x2F;which-environment-makes-cancer.php

    Always a good read, most cancers are environmental, and most of these are caused by obesity, bad diet and smoking&#x2F;drinking, fix these four things in your life and you reduce your chances of getting cancer by 50%+

    1. lanfeust6 · · focus · HN ↗
      What&#x27;s interesting is how low alcohol ranks compared to obesity and diet. It makes the recent moral panic following loose interpretations of the Lancet study seem hypocritical, if not misguided. If anything deserves a &quot;may cause cancer&quot; sticker, it&#x27;s nitrate-ridden processed meat.
      1. ryan_n · · focus · HN ↗
        Nitrate ridden processed meat already has a “may cause cancer” sticker on it (unless you mean a literal sticker warning when you buy meat from stores?):

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;progressreport.cancer.gov&#x2F;prevention&#x2F;diet_alcohol&#x2F;red_meat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;progressreport.cancer.gov&#x2F;prevention&#x2F;diet_alcohol&#x2F;re...

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publications.iarc.who.int&#x2F;Book-And-Report-Series&#x2F;Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Identification-Of-Carcinogenic-Hazards-To-Humans&#x2F;Red-Meat-And-Processed-Meat-2018" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;publications.iarc.who.int&#x2F;Book-And-Report-Series&#x2F;Iar...

        1. esperent · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; Nitrate ridden processed meat already has a “may cause cancer” sticker on it

          Not in any country I&#x27;ve ever been in. Do you mean in the US?

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