Not Surprised Re: Hot drinks and oesophageal cancer: the facts behind the headlines
Agreement: I Agree Body: Dear Editor, It was the year 1976. I was doing my first clinical term in MBBS. A gastroenterologist was taking a Clinic about Dysphagia or something like that. The discussion went to causes of factors predisposing to Oesophageal Cancer. Tobacco and alcohol were the quick answers from my fellow students. My answer was drinking very hot drinks. My Professor was quick to berate me as rubbish. But my answer never faded from my memory nor did my conviction that drinking exces
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Dear Editor,
It was the year 1976. I was doing my first clinical term in MBBS. A gastroenterologist was taking a Clinic about Dysphagia or something like that. The discussion went to causes of factors predisposing to Oesophageal Cancer. Tobacco and alcohol were the quick answers from my fellow students. My answer was drinking very hot drinks. My Professor was quick to berate me as rubbish. But my answer never faded from my memory nor did my conviction that drinking excessively hot drinks can cause cancer go away.
It is good to be proved correct. It is also good that one of the factors predisposing to Oesophageal Cancer is easily controllable.
- Arvind Joshi MBBS MD
Convener Our Own Discussion Group
Mumbai INDIA.
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