Eating processed meats like bacon or hot dogs might raise your chance of getting cancer because chemicals in them can turn into cancer-causing stuff in your body.

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Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Cancer: Mechanistic Pathways and Public Health Implications

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2025 Jun 20

The study talks about how highly processed foods, including things like bacon and hot dogs, can raise cancer risk, which matches the claim about processed meats causing cancer.

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Ultraprocessed Food and Risk of Cancer: Mechanistic Pathways and Public Health Implications

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DOI: 10.3390/cancers17132064

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