Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the risk of getting cancer. This can include maintaining a healthy lifestyle, avoiding exposure to known cancer-causing substances, and taking medicines or vaccines that can prevent cancer from developing. So, use this information to stay safe… This is the list of things the World Health Organisation (WHO) experts say are the causes of cancer:
1. Smokeless tobacco products
2. Sunlamps and sunbeds
3.Soots
4. Arsenic in drinking water
5. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) – widely used in electrical equipment in the past, banned in many countries in the 1970s
6. Boot and shoe manufacture and repair
7. Diesel exhaust
8. Aluminium production
9. Coal tar distillation
10. Chinese-style salted fish
11. Furniture and cabinet making
12. Haematite mining (underground) with exposure to radon
13. Processed meat
14. Coal gasification
15. Shale oils
16. Betel quid with tobacco
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. Iron and steel founding
23. Areca nut – often chewed with betel leaf
24. Betel quid without tobacco
25. Magenta dye manufacturing
26. Coal tar pitches
27. Alcoholic beverages
28. Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal
29. Chimney sweeping
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. Auramine production
34. Coke (fuel) production
35. Isopropanol manufacture (strong-acid process)
36. Secondhand smoke
37. Tobacco smoking
38. Wood dust
39. Coal tars
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