A Sausage a Day Could Lead to Cancer: Scientists

Eating one sausage a day or two rashers of bacon raises the risk of pancreatic cancer by a fifth, according to research, the Daily Mail Online reports.

Scientists in Sweden have found that eating just 50g of processed meat a day raises the likelihood of developing this deadly illness by 19 per cent.

This is equivalent to a few slices of ham or salami, a hot dog or sausage or two slices of bacon.

Eating 100g a day – a small burger – increases the risk by 38 per cent while 150g a day raises it by 57 per cent.

But the risk posed by eating meat was substantially lower than for smoking, which was found to increase the likelihood of pancreatic cancer by 74 per cent.

The research, published in the British Journal of Cancer, analyzed the results of 11 other studies involving 6,000 patients with pancreatic cancer