TY - JOUR AU - Lau, Hiu-Ying AU - Leung, Chit-Ming AU - Chan, Yap-Hang AU - Lee, Anne Wing-Mui AU - Kwong, Dora Lai-Wan AU - Lung, Maria Li AU - Lam, Tai-Hing PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/19 TI - Secular trends of salted fish consumption and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a multi-jurisdiction ecological study in 8 regions from 3 continents JO - BMC Cancer SP - 298 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Despite salted fish being a classical risk factor of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC), whether secular trends in salted fish consumption worldwide accounted for changes in NPC rates were unknown. The relationship between vegetable and cigarette consumption to NPC risk worldwide were also largely uncertain. We investigated the longitudinal trends in standardised NPC incidence/mortality rates across 8 regions and their associations with secular trends in salted fish, vegetable and tobacco consumptions. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-298 DO - 10.1186/1471-2407-13-298 ID - Lau2013 ER -