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A look at other common cancer-causing substances

AP Health News - Fetched: October 26th, 2015, 3:00pm UTC

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 Canceramp;apos;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. Hereamp;apos;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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