116 of things that causes cancer-meme review

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  1. Tobacco smoking

  2. Sunlamps and sunbeds

  3. Aluminium production

  4. Arsenic in drinking water

  5. Auramine production

  6. Boot and shoe manufacture and repair

  7. Chimney sweeping

  8. Coal gasification

  9. Coal tar distillation

  10. Coke (fuel) production

  11. Furniture and cabinet making

  12. Haematite mining (underground) with exposure to radon

  13. Secondhand smoke

  14. Iron and steel founding

  15. Isopropanol manufacture (strong-acid process)

  16. Magenta dye manufacturing

  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. Alcoholic beverages

  23. Areca nut - often chewed with betel leaf

  24. Betel quid without tobacco

  25. Betel quid with tobacco

  26. Coal tar pitches

  27. Coal tars

  28. Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal

  29. Diesel exhaust

  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. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - widely used in electrical equipment in the past, banned in many countries in the 1970s

  34. Chinese-style salted fish

  35. Shale oils

  36. Soots

  37. Smokeless tobacco products

  38. Wood dust

  39. Processed meat

  40. Acetaldehyde

  41. 4-Aminobiphenyl

  42. Aristolochic acids and plants containing them

  43. Asbestos

  44. Arsenic and arsenic compounds

  45. Azathioprine

  46. Benzene

  47. Benzidine

  48. Benzo[a]pyrene

  49. Beryllium and beryllium compounds

  50. Chlornapazine (N,N-Bis(2-chloroethyl)-2-naphthylamine)

  51. Bis(chloromethyl)ether

  52. Chloromethyl methyl ether

  53. 1,3-Butadiene

  54. 1,4-Butanediol dimethanesulfonate (Busulphan, Myleran)

  55. Cadmium and cadmium compounds

  56. Chlorambucil

  57. Methyl-CCNU (1-(2-Chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea; Semustine)

  58. Chromium(VI) compounds

  59. Ciclosporin

  60. Contraceptives, hormonal, combined forms (those containing both oestrogen and a progestogen)

  61. Contraceptives, oral, sequential forms of hormonal contraception (a period of oestrogen-only followed by a period of both oestrogen and a progestogen)

  62. Cyclophosphamide

  63. Diethylstilboestrol

  64. Dyes metabolized to benzidine

  65. Epstein-Barr virus

  66. Oestrogens, nonsteroidal

  67. Oestrogens, steroidal

  68. Oestrogen therapy, postmenopausal

  69. Ethanol in alcoholic beverages

  70. Erionite

  71. Ethylene oxide

  72. Etoposide alone and in combination with cisplatin and bleomycin

  73. Formaldehyde

  74. Gallium arsenide

  75. Helicobacter pylori (infection with)

  76. Hepatitis B virus (chronic infection with)

  77. Hepatitis C virus (chronic infection with)

  78. Herbal remedies containing plant species of the genus Aristolochia

  79. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (infection with)

  80. Human papillomavirus type 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 66

  81. Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-I

  82. Melphalan

  83. Methoxsalen (8-Methoxypsoralen) plus ultraviolet A-radiation

  84. 4,4'-methylene-bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA)

  85. MOPP and other combined chemotherapy including alkylating agents

  86. Mustard gas (sulphur mustard)

  87. 2-Naphthylamine

  88. Neutron radiation

  89. Nickel compounds

  90. 4-(N-Nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)

  91. N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN)

  92. Opisthorchis viverrini (infection with)

  93. Outdoor air pollution

  94. Particulate matter in outdoor air pollution

  95. Phosphorus-32, as phosphate

  96. Plutonium-239 and its decay products (may contain plutonium-240 and other isotopes), as aerosols

  97. Radioiodines, short-lived isotopes, including iodine-131, from atomic reactor accidents and nuclear weapons detonation (exposure during childhood)

  98. Radionuclides, α-particle-emitting, internally deposited

  99. Radionuclides, β-particle-emitting, internally deposited

  100. Radium-224 and its decay products

  101. Radium-226 and its decay products

  102. Radium-228 and its decay products

  103. Radon-222 and its decay products

  104. Schistosoma haematobium (infection with)

  105. Silica, crystalline (inhaled in the form of quartz or cristobalite from occupational sources)

  106. Solar radiation

  107. Talc containing asbestiform fibres

  108. Tamoxifen

  109. 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin

  110. Thiotepa (1,1',1'-phosphinothioylidynetrisaziridine)

  111. Thorium-232 and its decay products, administered intravenously as a colloidal dispersion of thorium-232 dioxide

  112. Treosulfan

  113. Ortho-toluidine

  114. Vinyl chloride

  115. Ultraviolet radiation

  116. X-radiation and gamma radiation

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