Everyday household items are behind the increasing cases of cancer: Experts
New Delhi: Everyday items used in homes like plastic bottles, tea bags; On World Cancer Day on Sunday, health experts warned that beauty products, e-cigarettes and hookahs are contributing to the increased risk of cancer. World Cancer Day is observed every year on February 4. This year’s theme is ‘Close the Care Gap’.
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), said in a dire warning that new cancer diagnoses are projected to increase by 77 percent by 2050, to 35 million annually. Will reach more cases.
The agency has attributed this dangerous condition to a combination of lifestyle and environmental factors, with tobacco, alcohol, obesity and air pollution being the major culprits.
Dr. J.B., Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology at Action Cancer Hospital. According to Sharma, many commonly used items in the home are potentially increasing the risk of cancer.
Plastic bottles used for drinking water may contain microplastics, and the habit of drinking hot tea from plastic bags or using white-colored mayonnaise in foods may introduce harmful chemicals such as epichlorohydrin into the body. , which increases the chances of cancer.” He told IANS. Moreover, modern technologies, while making life easier, also create risks.
Using plastic utensils in the oven or consuming food cooked in non-stick cookware can expose individuals to harmful chemicals such as endocrine-disrupting agents, which can potentially cause cancer, experts said. Awareness of these factors is important to reduce risk and promote a healthy lifestyle.
Apart from this, everyday beauty products also increase the risk of cancer. Nail polish and nail polish remover contain dangerous chemicals, including toluene, formaldehyde, and acetone, which are known carcinogens.
“Hair products containing chemicals, such as formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing agents, pose a significant risk of cancer. Use of certain hair straightening products can cause both short-term and long-term health problems, said Dr Rajit Channa, senior consultant, medical oncology at Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital.
It is important to recognize and avoid these carcinogenic agents in daily beauty routines to prevent potential cancer-related complications.
Additionally, oncologists are seeing an increase in cancer among youth due to e-cigarettes. Similarly, the increasing trend of hookah consumption among youth involves various harmful chemicals, especially in flavored variants.
“E-cigarettes are growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional smoking. However, the chemicals used in e-cigarettes, such as nicotine, formaldehyde, tin, nickel, lead, chromium, arsenic and diacetyl metal significantly increase the risk of lung cancer,” said Dr. Randeep Singh, Senior Consultant and Medical Director. Said. Oncology at Narayana Hospital, Gurugram.
Experts said that both e-cigarettes and flavored hookahs contain dangerous chemicals like diacetyl, carbon monoxide, cadmium, ammonia, radon, methane and acetone, which increase the risk of cancer.
