Products that promote the incidence of cancer. WHO Base. Sorting in order from highest to lowest effect.
Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs, Volumes 1—122 | |||||
CAS No. | Agent | Group | Volume | Year | Additional information |
Betel quid without tobacco | 1 | Sup 7, 85, 100E | 2012 | ||
Biomass fuel (primarily wood), indoor emissions from household combustion of | 2A | 95 | 2010 | ||
Bisulfites | 3 | 54 | 1992 | ||
Bitumens, occupational exposure to hard bitumens and their emissions during mastic asphalt work | 2B | 103 | 2013 | ||
BK polyomavirus (BKV) | 2B | 104 | 2014 | ||
Boot and shoe manufacture and repair (see Leather dust, Benzene) | 25, Sup 7 | 1987 | |||
Bracken fern | 2B | 40, Sup 7 | 1987 | ||
Calcium carbide production | 3 | 92 | 2010 | ||
Carbon electrode manufacture | 2A | 92 | 2010 | ||
Carpentry and joinery | 2B | 25, Sup 7 | 1987 | ||
Ceramic implants | 3 | 74 | 1999 | ||
Chimney sweeping (see Soot) | 92 | 2010 | |||
Chlorinated drinking-water | 3 | 52 | 1991 | ||
Chlorinated paraffins of average carbon chain length C12 and average degree of chlorination approximately 60% | 2B | 48 | 1990 | ||
Chlorophenols (see Polychlorophenols) | |||||
Chlorophenoxy herbicides | 2B | 41, Sup 7 | 1987 | ||
Clonorchis sinensis (infection with) | 1 | 61, 100B | 2012 | ||
Coal dust | 3 | 68 | 1997 | ||
Coal gasification | 1 | Sup 7, 92, 100F | 2012 | ||
Coal, indoor emissions from household combustion of | 1 | 95, 100E | 2012 | ||
Coffee, drinking | 3 | 51, 116 | 2018 online | NB: There is "evidence suggesting lack of carcinogenicity" in humans of coffee drinking for cancers of the pancreas, liver, female breast, uterine endometrium, and prostate. Inverse associations with coffee drinking have been observed with cancers of the liver and uterine endometrium. | |
Coke production | 1 | Sup 7, 92, 100F | 2012 | ||
Continuous glass filament (see Glass filament) | |||||
Dental materials | 3 | 74 | 1999 | ||
Diesel engine exhaust (see Engine exhaust, diesel) | |||||
Diesel fuel, marine | 2B | 45 | 1989 | NB: Overall evaluation upgraded to Group 2B with supporting evidence from other relevant data | |
Diesel fuels, distillate (light) | 3 | 45 | 1989 | ||
Dry cleaning (occupational exposures in) | 2B | 63 | 1995 | ||
Dyes metabolized to benzidine (see Benzidine, dyes metabolized to) | |||||
Electric fields, extremely low-frequency | 3 | 80 | 2002 | ||
Electric fields, static | 3 | 80 | 2002 | ||
Engine exhaust, diesel | 1 | 46, 105 | 2014 | ||
Engine exhaust, gasoline | 2B | 46, 105 | 2014 | ||
Epstein-Barr virus | 1 | 70, 100B | 2012 | ||
Estrogen therapy, postmenopausal | 1 | 72, 100A | 2012 | ||
Estrogen-progestogen menopausal therapy (combined) | 1 | 72, 91, 100A | 2012 | ||
Estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (combined) | 1 | 72, 91, 100A | 2012 | NB: There is also convincing evidence in humans that these agents confer a protective effect against cancer in the endometrium and ovary | |
Firefighter (occupational exposure as a) | 2B | 98 | 2010 | ||
Fission products, including strontium-90 | 1 | 100D | 2012 | ||
Flat-glass and specialty glass (manufacture of) | 3 | 58 | 1993 | ||
Fluorescent lighting | 3 | 55 | 1992 | ||
Fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole | 1 | 111 | 2017 | ||
Foreign bodies (see Ceramic implants, Dental materials, Implanted foreign bodies, Metallic implants, Organic polymeric materials, Orthopaedic implants, Polymeric implants, Silicone breast implants) | |||||
Frying, emissions from high-temperature | 2A | 95 | 2010 | ||
Fuel oils, distillate (light) | 3 | 45 | 1989 | ||
Fuel oils, residual (heavy) | 2B | 45 | 1989 | ||
Furniture and cabinet making (see Wood dust) | 25, Sup 7 | 1987 | |||
Fusarium graminearum , F. culmorum , and F. crookwellense , toxins derived from (zearalenone, deoxynivalenol, nivalenol, and fusarenone X) | 3 | Sup 7, 56 | 1993 | ||
Fusarium sporotrichioides, toxins derived from (T-2 toxin) | 3 | 56 | 1993 | ||
Gamma-Radiation (see X- and Gamma-Radiation) | |||||
Gasoline | 2B | 45 | 1989 | NB: Overall evaluation upgraded to Group 2B with supporting evidence from other relevant data | |
Gasoline engine exhaust (see Engine exhaust, gasoline) | |||||
Glass filament, continuous | 3 | 43, 81 | 2002 | ||
Goldenseal root powder | 2B | 108 | 2016 | ||
Haematite mining (underground) | 1 | 1, Sup 7, 100D | 2012 | ||
Hair colouring products (personal use of) | 3 | 57, 99 | 2010 | ||
Hairdresser or barber (occupational exposure as a) | 2A | 57, 99 | 2010 | ||
Helicobacter pylori (infection with) | 1 | 61, 100B | 2012 | ||
Hepatitis B virus (chronic infection with) | 1 | 59, 100B | 2012 | ||
Hepatitis C virus (chronic infection with) | 1 | 59, 100B | 2012 | ||
Hepatitis D virus | 3 | 59 | 1994 | ||
Hexachlorocvclohexanes | 2B | 20, Sup 7 | 1987 | ||
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