Eat your vegetables
In a report on an increase in the incidence of oral cancer among Britons in their 40s, we should have quoted a Cancer Research UK press release as saying that, along with tobacco and alcohol use, risk factors for oral cancers include "a diet low in fruit and vegetables, and a sexually transmitted infection called the human papilloma virus (HPV)". Instead, our report combined these two factors, so that the charity was wrongly quoted as stating that a diet deficient in fruit and vegetables was partly to blame for the growth of HPV (Heavy drinking culture blamed for surge in oral cancers, 11 August, page 9).
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