Eating a lot of salty preserved foods might raise your chances of getting stomach cancer by about one-quarter compared to eating less of them, but this link isn't as strong as other ways salt could affect cancer risk.

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Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

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2022 May

The study looked at salt-preserved foods and found that eating a lot of them raises the risk of stomach cancer by 24%, just like the claim says, but it wasn't as strong as other salt habits.

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Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

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DOI: 10.1007/s10552-022-01565-y

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