DEADLY DISH: THE DINNER THAT CAN GIVE YOU CANCER BBC A local delicacy in north-east Thailand, made from raw fish, has been found to be behind a high incidence of liver cancer in the area, and doctors are trying to educate people about the risk.

Deadly dish: the dinner that can give you cancer

By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent

• 13 June 2015
• From the section Health

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  A local delicacy in north-east Thailand, made from raw fish, has been found to be behind a high incidence of liver cancer in the area, and doctors are trying to educate people about the risk.

A local delicacy in north-east Thailand, made from raw fish, has been found to be behind a high incidence of liver cancer in the area, and doctors are trying to educate people about the risk….

Liver fluke eggs are excreted into the water system by infected people.

Dr. Banchob Sripa at the Tropical Disease Research Laboratory in Khon Kaen University is the man largely responsible for this effort.

“We have been studying this link in our labs for over 30 years”, he said.

“We found that the liver fluke can make a chemical that stimulates a host immune response – inflammation – and after many years, this becomes chronic inflammation, which then becomes cancer.” …

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