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The classification of deli ham as a carcinogen and its link to cancer in humans, as evaluated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015 and with new studies in 2026.
Deli ham is part of the processed-meat category that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO) placed in Group 1—“carcinogenic to humans”—the same formal category that also contains t...
The World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), classifies processed meats — a category that includes ham and many deli meats — as Group 1, “carc...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) placed processed meat in Group 1—“carcinogenic to humans”—after a working group of 22 experts reviewed more than 800 epidemiological, experimenta...