Re:Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates
by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday January 02, 2015 @07:01PM
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I think that's a bit unfair. Sure, we can play semantics and claim it's technically incorrect to say "smoking causes cancer" because if it did everyone who smokes would get cancer, and that isn't the case.
However, we are aware of quite a few known, and many probable, carcinogens.[1][2] Among women, breast cancer comprises 60% of alcohol-attributable cancers.[3] And to support the claim that certain foods, when prepared in certain ways, can become carcinogenic take a look at the research on Heterocyclic amines,[4] and acrylamide.[5]
However, we are aware of quite a few known, and many probable, carcinogens.[1][2] Among women, breast cancer comprises 60% of alcohol-attributable cancers.[3] And to support the claim that certain foods, when prepared in certain ways, can become carcinogenic take a look at the research on Heterocyclic amines,[4] and acrylamide.[5]
1. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/g...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinogen...
3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.21903/abstrac...
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocyclic_amine#Heterocyclic...
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Toxicity_and_carcino...