There are a number of items throughout the world that are known, or suspected, to cause cancer. These items are cause carcinogens and can be nearly anything.
A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide or radiation, that is an agent directly involved in causing cancer. This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes. Several radioactive substances are considered carcinogens, but their carcinogenic activity is attributed to the radiation, for example gamma rays and alpha particles, which they emit. Common examples of carcinogens are inhaled asbestos, certain dioxins, and tobacco smoke.
There are a number of radioactive substances which are considered carcinogens. The carcinogenic activity of these substances is actually attributed to the radiation which they emit, rather than the substance itself. The radiation can be through gamma rays or alpha particles.
Common examples of carcinogens are inhaled asbestos, certain dioxins, and tobacco smoke. All of these items, and many more, are known to cause cancer in individuals. Other carcinogens include coal tar creosote and x-rays from x-ray machines.
| Carcenogen | Types of cancer |
| Environmental & Industrial | |
| Arsenic | Lung |
| Asbestos | Lung Pleura |
| Aromatic amines | Bladder |
| Benzene | Leukemia |
| Chromates | Lung |
| Diesel exhaust | Lung |
| Ionizing radiation | Leukemia |
| Nickel | Lung Nasal sinuses |
| Pesticides | Lung |
| Radon | Lung |
| Ultraviolet radiation | Skin |
| Vinyl chloride | Liver |
| Associated with lifestyle | |
| Betel nuts | Mouth Throat |
| Tobacco | Bladder Esophagus Kidney Lung Mouth Throat |
| Used in medicine | |
| Chemotherapy drugs (such as topoisomerase inhibitors) | Bladder Leukemia |
| Diethylstilbestrol | Breast (in women who took the drug and in women exposed before birth) Cervix (when exposed before birth) Vagina (when exposed before birth) |
| Oxymetholone | Liver |
| Radiation therapy | Sarcomas |
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