Red meat may not raise cancer risk for Koreans, study suggests

Red meat has long been regarded as a potential cancer risk, with the World Health Organization classifying it as “probably carcinogenic to humans.” But a new Korean study suggests the association might differ depending on population, sex and type of meat consumed.

Seoul National University Hospital said Thursday that higher red meat consumption was linked to lower gastric cancer mortality among Korean men in a large cohort study.

Men in the highest quartile of red meat consumption had a 52 perce ...