Table 1.

Effect of ginger on the incidence of liver neoplasms in ethionine induced rat hepatocarcinogenesis

Group	Number of	Numbers of	Incidence of**	Tumour
	rats	rats with tumour	tumor (%)	size
	examined			(cm)
Control	6	0	0	0
CDE	6	6	100	1
Oliver oil	6	0	0	0
Ginger*	6	0	0	0
Ginger + CDE	6	1	17	0.1

^*100mg/kg body weight

^**The percentage was calculated by dividing the number of rats with preneoplastic nodules over the total number of rats per group; CDE = choline deficient diet with 0.1% ethionine in drinking water