Day 254 - 22 May 96 - Page 47


     
     1        the cancer cells to be stickier.  If you were a cancer, you
     2        want your cells to break off and spread because that is the
     3        way that you are going to develop, and to have some process
     4        which makes the cells stickier and keeps them confined in
     5        one place is not an advantage if you were a cancer for
     6        example.
     7
     8   Q.   But, to your knowledge, such a theory as that put forward
     9        by Professor Crawford has not been investigated?
    10        A.  To my knowledge, no, but I do not have the evidence to
    11        argue that.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know whether there is any evidence that
    14        they actually do become more sticky?  Until I hear
    15        Professor Crawford, I do not know whether this is just
    16        thinking at large or he has some scientific basis for
    17        thinking that cancer cells do become more sticky if there
    18        is more blood in a person.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL: If that is exactly what he said?
    21        A.  We actually know ----
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If what?
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  I said if that is exactly what he said, which it
    26        might not be.  I am trying to put the best ----
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The only evidence I can hear this afternoon
    29        is from Dr. Arnott.  That is why I ask.
    30
    31        Dr. Arnott, do you know of any evidence that cancer cells
    32        do become more sticky if there is more fat in the blood
    33        stream?
    34        A.  I do not know of any evidence of that.
    35
    36   MS. STEEL:  I will go back to the other matter in your statement
    37        then.  If we turn to the European Journal of Cancer
    38        Prevention.  At the bottom of the page, it says:
    39        "This is a review of scientific evidence on diet and cancer
    40        prepared for the Food and Drink Federation". Who are the
    41        Food and Drink Federation?
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where are you looking?
    44
    45   MS. STEEL:  On the first page of the Review.  It is not the
    46        introductory front cover or whatever it is.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  It is page 3 of the report.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Do you know, Dr. Arnott? 
    51        A.  I personally do not know, but it goes on to say that it 
    52        is submitted to the COMA Working Group on Diet and Cancer. 
    53
    54   Q.   Anyway, you are not acquainted with the Food and Drink
    55        Federation?
    56        A.  I am afraid I am not, my Lord.
    57
    58   MS. STEEL:  The introduction:
    59
    60        "There is a general consensus that diet is an important

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