Like Eating Salted Fish One Cause Cancer Incidence

Several studies have shown that eating salted fish was one factor causing cancer or nasopharyngeal carcinoma. One of the substances contained in dried fish called nitrosamines is the trigger factor.





"Nitrosamines is a carcinogenic substance, which can cause cancer," said Professor of Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia Prof. Dr. Bambang Hermani, Sp. ENT-KL (K), Wednesday (01/06/2011) in Jakarta.





Nitrosamine substance will emerge in the process of salting and drying of salted fish in the hot sun. Sunlight reacts with nitrite (the reshuffle of protein) in the fish meat to form nitrosamines compounds.