PHOTOS: What else causes cancer?

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Thu, 02 Jun 2011 1:30p.m.

PESTICIDES AND HERBISCIDES - DDT might be a thing of the past, but category 2B carcinogens are still fairly common in pesticides and herbicides. They include chlorophenoxy herbicide, which causes diarrhoea, coma and hallucinations, and 1,3-Dichloropropene, which can cause headaches, fatigue and newborn puppies to be slightly underweight. Useful if you want to simulate the effects of drinking too much absinthe or don't like big puppies, not if you don't want to get cancer.

PESTICIDES AND HERBISCIDES - DDT might be a thing of the past, but category 2B carcinogens are still fairly common in pesticides and herbicides. They include chlorophenoxy herbicide, which causes diarrhoea, coma and hallucinations, and 1,3-Dichloropropene, which can cause headaches, fatigue and newborn puppies to be slightly underweight. Useful if you want to simulate the effects of drinking too much absinthe or don't like big puppies, not if you don't want to get cancer.

By Dan Satherley

Cellphones have now been classified by the World Health Organisation as a category 2B carcinogen, meaning they are "possibly carcinogenic" to humans.

That's all very well and good, but what does it mean? What other things are listed in category 2B, or contain substances deemed "possibly carcinogenic"?

3 News took a look, and the results may surprise you.

Click the photo gallery link above to find out. Warning - contains black humour.

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02 Jun 2011 10:25a.m.

nukefree wrote:

I was so worried reading about smoking and cancer I gave up reading.