Eating a lot of a chemical called NDMA in food might raise your chance of getting stomach cancer by about one-third, based on a big review of studies.

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Dietary Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosamines Intake and the Risk of Gastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

2015 Dec 1

This study looked at the same thing as the claim—how eating foods with NDMA affects stomach cancer risk—and found the exact same 34% increase in risk, so it supports the claim.

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Dietary Nitrates, Nitrites, and Nitrosamines Intake and the Risk of Gastric Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

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DOI: 10.3390/nu7125505

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