Role of fried foods and oral/pharyngeal and oesophageal cancers.

​Consistent consumption of fried foods may significantly increase the probability of developing oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancers.

This study examined the correlation between the intake of fried foods and the occurrence of oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancers. The eating habits and  incidence of oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancers among more than 2,000 men and women were assessed by validated food frequency questionnaires and hospital records respectively.

Researchers observed that the rate of occurrence of oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancers was high among regular consumers of fried foods. Data from this study suggest that high dietary ingestion of fried foods may be a contributing factor to the development oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal cancers.