Fish sauce may cause esophageal tumors

Fish sauce is a seasoning sauce made from fish and shrimp, also known as shrimp oil. Chinese people living in the south often like to add fish sauce to their dishes to make them more fragrant. However, recent studies have found that this kind of fish sauce may cause esophageal tumors.

People who are accustomed to cooking with fish sauce have a three times higher chance of developing esophageal cancer in the future than those who do not use fish sauce. If someone uses fish sauce to season their meals every day, their chance of developing esophageal cancer is 16 times higher than those who do not use fish sauce at all.

Why might fish sauce cause esophageal tumors? The real reason is not clear, but researchers have found that if a person smokes and likes to cook with fish sauce, then he is unlikely to get esophageal tumors.

It can be inferred that there may be some substances in fish sauce that may react chemically with inhaled cigarette smoke and catalyze the occurrence of cancer cells. How to identify these substances will be the next research direction for researchers.

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