Tomatoes and Cancer.
Dr Sydney A. Bontor wrote as follows to the British Medical Journal : —I am constantly being asked by my patients whether tomatoes are injurious or likely to produce cancer ; the grounds for fears in this connection being based upon an announcement supposed to have been made in the out-patient department of the Cancer Hospital, warning patients against the vegetable. Will you kindly inform me whether anything is known against them, and whether this announcement ever was made in the Cancer Hospital ? The following is the Editorial answer given ; — We are informed by Mr Bowreman Jesaett that such an opinion has never yet been expressed by any of the staff of the Cancer Hospital. The oommittee have constantly received let* tcrs upon tho satno eubjeot, and the emphatic opinion of the medical staff of the hospital is that there is no ground what- • ever for supposing that the eating of tomatoes predisposes to cancer.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1896, Page 2
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