I did read this, its been suspected for a long time. There are choices to make in lifestyle that may reduce your chances of various cancers. Smoking Alcohol Obesity and lack of excercise being top of the list. It doesnt follow that all smokers get lung cancer or that non smokers wont get lung cancer. I have a relative who is 82 he still works full time as an estate manager and eats a full english breakfast every day. He can dig a trench or use a chainsaw with the best of them, he also has a quarter bottle of whiskey every evening. So there are many more factors to take into account when calculating who is likely to get cancer. The genes you inhereted from your parents being probably the biggest. The old adage everything in moderation is probably the best advice, instead of worrying about every new sensationalist scare story. Kim

Hello,

You might have seen the headlines today about the change in classification of red and processed meat, where processed meat is a ‘definite’ cause of cancer and red meat a ‘probable’ cause.

Our blog post tells you all you need to know: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2015/10/26/processed-meat-and-cancer-what-you-need-to-know/

Predictable headlines in the tabloid press today along the lines of "Hands off our bacon butties!"

The mind boggles.