Eating a lot of red and processed meats—like bacon, sausages, and steaks—on a meat-only diet might raise your cancer risk because of harmful chemicals formed when cooking meat and possibly from hormones used in raising animals.

Eating grilled or cooked red and processed meats, especially when well-done, might raise your chances of getting colorectal cancer, according to several big studies.

Eating red meat might increase your risk of getting colon cancer — scientists aren't totally sure, but there's some concerning evidence and a good biological reason to think it could be harmful.

Eating red meat might raise your chances of dying from cancer or getting certain types of cancer, according to big reviews of past research.

We know that eating a lot of red and processed meats is linked to higher cancer risk, but scientists still don't fully understand how exactly that happens in the body.

Eating more red and processed meat doesn't seem to help prevent cancer, according to studies that looked at how much people eat.