A look at other common cancer-causing substances

Monday, October 26, 2015 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

PARIS (AP) -- Hotdogs, bologna and other processed meats now rank alongside tobacco, alcohol and around 100 more substances on the International Agency for Research on Cancer's list of Group 1 carcinogens. In 2012, 14.1 million new cancer cases were diagnosed and 8.2 million cancer deaths were recorded, according to the IARC. Here's a look at some of the other things we encounter in daily life that the Lyon, France-based agency has found can cause cancer....

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