Microwave popcorn, nightshifts and other surprising things linked with cancer

ACCORDING to the World Health Organisation (WHO), red meat is “probably” carcinogenic to humans, while cured and processed meat is carcinogenic, meaning bacon is up there alongside cigarettes, arsenic and asbestos as a cancer risk.

The report, published by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), explains that processed meats will now be categorised as group 1 carcinogens because of their relation to bowel cancer, while eating large quantities of red meat has been significantly linked to prostate and pancreatic cancer.

So, aside from your hallowed weekend fry-up, what other surprising carcinogens are out there? Here are nine other things — some of which might surprise you — that have been linked with cancer...