Nutrition and the cancer patient.

recorded 62 of their 100 patients and 35 of their 100 controls would have been classified as regular cornflake eaters (x2= 14 6, P < 001). They have thus shown that 53% of regular eaters of cornflakes abandoned the habit when they developed Crohn's disease, bearing out my comments (9 September, p 767) on the findings of Drs L N J Archer and R E Harvey (19 August, p 540). I accept that recollection may be faulty, but the authors have recorded these data and the inference is there to be drawn. A H JAMES