Title: WHO: Bacon, Hot Dogs Can Cause Cancer

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/584/red_meat_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='WHO: Bacon, Hot Dogs Can Cause Cancer' data-article-id='934'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8125'>Eating processed meat can cause cancer, World Health Organization experts said Monday.</span> <span data-start-time='8125' data-end-time='17708'>Processed meat is meat that has been preserved by curing, salting, smoking, drying or canning.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='17708' data-end-time='30417'>Experts from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, studied 800 cases. </span> <span data-start-time='30417' data-end-time='42604'>IARC researchers linked processed meat, such as hot dogs and ham, to bowel cancer, as well as pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='42604' data-end-time='53563'>The IARC has included processed meat in its group 1 list, for which there is “sufficient evidence” of links to cancer. </span> <span data-start-time='53563' data-end-time='60667'>Tobacco, asbestos, and diesel fumes are also on the group 1 list.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='60667' data-end-time='71542'>WHO experts also called red meat, including beef, lamb and pork, “probably” carcinogenic to humans.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='71542' data-end-time='75708'>Dr. Kurt Straif is with the IARC. </span> <span data-start-time='75708' data-end-time='82938'>He said in a statement that the risk of cancer increases with the amount of meat a 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Eating processed meat can cause cancer, World Health Organization experts said Monday. Processed meat is meat that has been preserved by curing, salting, smoking, drying or canning.

Experts from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, studied 800 cases. IARC researchers linked processed meat, such as hot dogs and ham, to bowel cancer, as well as pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer.

The IARC has included processed meat in its group 1 list, for which there is “sufficient evidence” of links to cancer. Tobacco, asbestos, and diesel fumes are also on the group 1 list.

WHO experts also called red meat, including beef, lamb and pork, “probably” carcinogenic to humans.

Dr. Kurt Straif is with the IARC. He said in a statement that the risk of cancer increases with the amount of meat a person eats.

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