Day 036 - 13 Oct 94 - Page 51
1 MS. STEEL: I do not know whether you have Professor Crawford's
2 references to hand?
3 A. I am not sure that I do.
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5 Q. The Willett Review article is the one.
6 A. Is that "The search for causes of breast and colon
7 cancer"?
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9 Q. That is the one, yes. For some reason when Mr. Rampton
10 brought this to your attention yesterday he did not read
11 out the subheading directly under the heading of "The
12 search for the causes of breast and colon cancer", the
13 subheading being "Epidemiological studies of breast and
14 colon cancers implicate diet as a causative factor but the
15 evidence is stronger for colon cancer, the occurrence of
16 which may be reduced by diets with less" -----
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are you?
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20 MS. STEEL: It is the references of Professor Crawford.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But there were two, one was No. 20 and the
23 other No. 21, I think.
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25 MS. STEEL: I have not got them tabbed; it is March 1989?
26 A. Mine is marked as 20.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the 1989 one, is it?
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30 MS. STEEL: Yes. What do you think -----
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32 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which is the bit you want me to look at?
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34 MS. STEEL: The subheading.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which one?
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38 MS. STEEL: "Epidemiological studies of breast and colon
39 cancers implicate diet as a causative factor".
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41 MR. MORRIS: It is under the main heading, the very first page.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I see, yes.
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45 MS. STEEL: Having noted that heading, having noted the
46 subheading, is there anything that you want to comment on
47 in relation to that?
48 A. Perhaps what is useful to note is the use of the word
49 "causative", again in case there was any doubt that the
50 links we are speaking are of a causal nature, that is
51 obviously what is under consideration here, and
52 I certainly accept what he has described here.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Again I suppose it depends what "implicate"
55 means, does it not? But I take your point anyway.
56 A. Perhaps it goes without saying that no-one has simply
57 thought that a high-fat intake, as silly as it sounds, is
58 somehow caused by cancer, or that the causation goes some
59 other way. Quite the reverse is true, that the concern
60 and interest and research has all been directed toward
