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AS the result of his investigations at the Leeuwenhoek Cancer Research Institute, Amsterdam, Dr. N, Waterman, while admitting that his results are neither complete nor definitive, maintains that the influence of different foodstuffs on a definite experimental form of cancer is incontestable. His experiments, which were carried out on mice developing tar cancer, showed that of the classical foodstuffs (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) only animal fats appeared to have a definite deleterious effect, the malignancy of the process being increased to a marked degree. As regards vitamins, increase of vitamin A intake had an undoubted, if not very marked, mitigating effect on the course of tar carcinoma ; administration of vitamin B1 did not have the unfavourable effect in tar cancer which it had in inoculated tumours ; and vitamin C delayed the formation of carcinoma and increased the duration of life.
Diet and Cancer:
an Experimental Study. By Dr. N. Waterman. Pp. v + 96. (Amsterdam: D. B. Centen's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1938.) 2.50 dollars.
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Diet and Cancer. Nature 142, 555 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142555d0
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