Kill or cure?

Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it.

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If any of these results seems incorrect, please report it using the link next to the article.

painkillers prevent cancer #

• Painkillers 'cut breast cancer risk' [Incorrect?]
• Painkillers may cut risk of prostate cancer [Incorrect?]

paracetamol prevents cancer #

• Paracetamol 'may cut ovarian cancer risk' [Incorrect?]

pasta prevents cancer #

• Reheated spaghetti bolognese 'prevents cancer' [Incorrect?]

pastry causes cancer #

• How safe are your favourite foods? [Incorrect?]

peanut butter causes cancer #

• Food watchdog warning over peanut butter brand containing 'cancer-causing fungus' [Incorrect?]

peanuts cause cancer #

• Cancer: foods to avoid? [Incorrect?]
• How safe are your favourite foods? [Incorrect?]

perfume causes cancer #

• How perfumes and scented creams could make your unborn baby infertile [Incorrect?]

pesticides cause cancer #

• Pesticide cancer risk to babies [Incorrect?]
• Pesticides link to cancer [Incorrect?]
• Using pesticide sprays in the home 'could double risk of brain tumours' [Incorrect?]
• How to prevent prostate cancer [Incorrect?]
• Produce or pesticides? [Incorrect?]

pets prevent cancer #

• Owning a pet 'cuts lymphatic cancer risk' by boosting immune system [Incorrect?]
• Cats and dogs cut their owners' cancer risk by a third, researchers say [Incorrect?]

pickles cause cancer #

• How safe are your favourite foods? [Incorrect?]

pizza both causes and prevents cancer #

• New food dye warning [Incorrect?]

• Why pizza can fight cancer [Incorrect?]

plastic surgery prevents cancer #

• Breast cancer be damned! The inspiring story of the beauty queen who had her breasts rebuilt to save her life [Incorrect?]

pollution causes cancer #

• Pollution increases lung cancer risk [Incorrect?]
• Fish cancer scare [Incorrect?]
• Health risks in the air, says study [Incorrect?]

pomegranates prevent cancer #

• Pomegranate juice 'can help fight prostate cancer' [Incorrect?]

poor diet causes cancer #

• Breast cancer is linked to bad childhood diet, study reveals [Incorrect?]

pork causes cancer #

• Red meat link to higher risk of breast cancer [Incorrect?]
• After alert over Irish pork, how safe is beef? [Incorrect?]
• Cancer scare in Irish pork forces British supermarkets to pull meat from shelves [Incorrect?]

potatoes cause cancer #

• Me and my operation: skin cancer [Incorrect?]
• Cancer chemical link to cooked food [Incorrect?]
• How safe are your favourite foods? [Incorrect?]

poverty causes cancer #

• SUZANNE MOORE: I'm sick of being told it's all our fault [Incorrect?]

pregnancy both causes and prevents cancer #

• Breast cancer risk to career women [Incorrect?]

• The health commandments all women should know based on research examining over a MILLION of us [Incorrect?]

processed food causes cancer #

• Food colour linked to cancer [Incorrect?]
• Worldwide alert over cancer link to our food [Incorrect?]

processed meat causes cancer #

• Eating one sausage a day raises cancer risk by 20pc [Incorrect?]
• Red meat 'can raise the risk of cancer by 25 per cent' [Incorrect?]

psoriasis cause cancer #

• Psoriasis link to cancer [Incorrect?]

pulses prevent cancer #

• More foods that could protect you against cancer [Incorrect?]

pumpkins prevent cancer #

• More foods to prevent breast cancer [Incorrect?]

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Made by Paul Battley (@threedaymonk). What’s all this about?