date:Oct 27, 2015
ocessed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed, said Kurt Straif, Head of the IARC Monographs Program. In view of the large number of people who consume processed meat, the global impact on cancer incidence is of public health importance.
The IARC Working Group considered more than 800 studies that investigated associations of more than a dozen types of cancer with the consumption of red meat or processed meat in many countries and populations with diverse