| salted fish and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in malaysia. | the evidence for a hypothesis that eating salted fish is associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is reviewed. the hypothesis was tested among malaysian chinese using a matched case-control design. the kinds of salted fish and patterns of use were also investigated in a control group comprising 100 chinese, 50 malay and 50 indian households. during 1980, in selangor, malaysia, interviews with 100 chinese cases of npc and 100 non-disease controls indicated that salted fish consumption durin ... | 1983 | 6635717 |