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Joined: Jun 2014 Posts: 38 | [quote=Uptown][quote=JGD99]?...if one is not asian (subject to other viruses) and does not consume major amounts of smoked meat and fish, then pharanx is unnecessary...[/quote]
I have never heard of this. So if I'm part Asian and have eaten a lot of smoked meats and fish, I should expect nasal pharynx cancer?? [/quote]
I think it's not ancestry as much as connection to the old country. I have heard there are viruses in asian populations which can express as nasal pharanx cancers. The other risk factor common in nasal pharanx was smoked fish, but that dovetails with the "salty fermented" thing Paul mentioned
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