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.
     4
     5   Q.   The Willett Review article is the one.
     6        A.  Is that "The search for causes of breast and colon
     7        cancer"?
     8
     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" -----
    17
    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Where are you?
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  It is the references of Professor Crawford.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But there were two, one was No. 20 and the
    23        other No. 21, I think.
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  I have not got them tabbed; it is March 1989?
    26        A.  Mine is marked as 20.
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is the 1989 one, is it?
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  What do you think -----
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which is the bit you want me to look at?
    33
    34   MS. STEEL:  The subheading.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which one?
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:  "Epidemiological studies of breast and colon
    39        cancers implicate diet as a causative factor".
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  It is under the main heading, the very first page.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I see, yes.
    44
    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. 
    53
    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

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