red and processed meat and cancer
- Why does red and processed meat cause cancer (q)
- CAWF NHS report MOC
- Red and processed meat are bad for you
- Red and processed meat and CVD
- red and processed meat and obesity
In 2015, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), classified the consumption of red meat, which includes beef, lamb, and pork, as carcinogenic to humans if eaten in processed form, and as probably carcinogenic if eaten unprocessed[1].
Risk ratios for red and processed meat and cancer
Pulling extensively from Farvid et al., 2021 which details at the individual cancer level
Han et al., 2019 found small RRs
Wang et al., 2016 found across 3 studies, cancer mortality increase associated with 100g more unprocessed meat (RR = 1·12, 95 % CI 1·07, 1·17; P = 0·001). across 5 studies the risk ratios for cancer mortality associated with 50g per day of processed meat was 1.08 (95% CI 1.06-1.11)
Reading list
https://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/21518/1/Bouvard_21518.pdf
References
Bouvard V, Loomis D, Guyton KZ, Grosse Y, Ghissassi F El, Benbrahim-Tallaa L, et al. Carcinogenicity of consumption of red and processed meat. Lancet Oncol. 2015; 16: 1599–1600. https://doi.org/10. 1016/S1470-2045(15)00444-1 PMID: 26514947 ↩︎