Lin C, Cao SM, Chang ET, et al. - Researchers investigated if a nonmedicinal herbal diet is associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). From 2010 to 2014, a total of 2,469 patients with incident NPC and 2,559 population controls were recruited from parts of Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces in southern China. Via questionnaire, information on the intake of traditional herbal tea and herbal soup as well as the specific herbal plants used in soups and other potentially confounding lifestyle factors was obtained. The analysis revealed an inverse correlation of consuming herbal soups including specific plants, but not herbal tea, with NPC. Nine herbal plants used in herbal soup—Ziziphus jujuba, Fructus lycii, Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Semen coicis, Smilax glabra, Phaseolus calcaratus, Morinda officinalis, and Atractylodes macrocephala—had inverse associations with NPC risk.