116 of things that causes cancer-meme review
Tobacco smoking
Sunlamps and sunbeds
Aluminium production
Arsenic in drinking water
Auramine production
Boot and shoe manufacture and repair
Chimney sweeping
Coal gasification
Coal tar distillation
Coke (fuel) production
Furniture and cabinet making
Haematite mining (underground) with exposure to radon
Secondhand smoke
Iron and steel founding
Isopropanol manufacture (strong-acid process)
Magenta dye manufacturing
Occupational exposure as a painter
Paving and roofing with coal-tar pitch
Rubber industry
Occupational exposure of strong inorganic acid mists containing sulphuric acid
Naturally occurring mixtures of aflatoxins (produced by funghi)
Alcoholic beverages
Areca nut - often chewed with betel leaf
Betel quid without tobacco
Betel quid with tobacco
Coal tar pitches
Coal tars
Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal
Diesel exhaust
Mineral oils, untreated and mildly treated
Phenacetin, a pain and fever reducing drug
Plants containing aristolochic acid (used in Chinese herbal medicine)
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) - widely used in electrical equipment in the past, banned in many countries in the 1970s
Chinese-style salted fish
Shale oils
Soots
Smokeless tobacco products
Wood dust
Processed meat
Acetaldehyde
4-Aminobiphenyl
Aristolochic acids and plants containing them
Asbestos
Arsenic and arsenic compounds
Azathioprine
Benzene
Benzidine
Benzo[a]pyrene
Beryllium and beryllium compounds
Chlornapazine (N,N-Bis(2-chloroethyl)-2-naphthylamine)
Bis(chloromethyl)ether
Chloromethyl methyl ether
1,3-Butadiene
1,4-Butanediol dimethanesulfonate (Busulphan, Myleran)
Cadmium and cadmium compounds
Chlorambucil
Methyl-CCNU (1-(2-Chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea; Semustine)
Chromium(VI) compounds
Ciclosporin
Contraceptives, hormonal, combined forms (those containing both oestrogen and a progestogen)
Contraceptives, oral, sequential forms of hormonal contraception (a period of oestrogen-only followed by a period of both oestrogen and a progestogen)
Cyclophosphamide
Diethylstilboestrol
Dyes metabolized to benzidine
Epstein-Barr virus
Oestrogens, nonsteroidal
Oestrogens, steroidal
Oestrogen therapy, postmenopausal
Ethanol in alcoholic beverages
Erionite
Ethylene oxide
Etoposide alone and in combination with cisplatin and bleomycin
Formaldehyde
Gallium arsenide
Helicobacter pylori (infection with)
Hepatitis B virus (chronic infection with)
Hepatitis C virus (chronic infection with)
Herbal remedies containing plant species of the genus Aristolochia
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (infection with)
Human papillomavirus type 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59 and 66
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-I
Melphalan
Methoxsalen (8-Methoxypsoralen) plus ultraviolet A-radiation
4,4'-methylene-bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA)
MOPP and other combined chemotherapy including alkylating agents
Mustard gas (sulphur mustard)
2-Naphthylamine
Neutron radiation
Nickel compounds
4-(N-Nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)
N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN)
Opisthorchis viverrini (infection with)
Outdoor air pollution
Particulate matter in outdoor air pollution
Phosphorus-32, as phosphate
Plutonium-239 and its decay products (may contain plutonium-240 and other isotopes), as aerosols
Radioiodines, short-lived isotopes, including iodine-131, from atomic reactor accidents and nuclear weapons detonation (exposure during childhood)
Radionuclides, α-particle-emitting, internally deposited
Radionuclides, β-particle-emitting, internally deposited
Radium-224 and its decay products
Radium-226 and its decay products
Radium-228 and its decay products
Radon-222 and its decay products
Schistosoma haematobium (infection with)
Silica, crystalline (inhaled in the form of quartz or cristobalite from occupational sources)
Solar radiation
Talc containing asbestiform fibres
Tamoxifen
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin
Thiotepa (1,1',1'-phosphinothioylidynetrisaziridine)
Thorium-232 and its decay products, administered intravenously as a colloidal dispersion of thorium-232 dioxide
Treosulfan
Ortho-toluidine
Vinyl chloride
Ultraviolet radiation
X-radiation and gamma radiation
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