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1 The same kind of recommendations are now being made about
2 cancer and diet that were being made about heart disease
3 and diet in the mid-70s. We had the COMA Report, the
4 Government report, the Royal College of Physicians report,
5 the WHO FEO conjoint report, and already by the time that
6 that report was published in 1978, I think I referred to
7 some 23 other expert bodies who had reviewed the evidence
8 on diet and heart disease and we presented a table in the
9 report of the similarities between these 23 expert bodies
10 and that such differences existed. But, by and large,
11 they came to some sort of corporate view about the link
12 between dietary fats and heart disease. That is the sort
13 of position we are at in the late 80s with regard to
14 cancer.
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16 Q. With this possibly important qualification, that does not
17 mean at this stage I accept what you have just told me;
18 obviously I will have to go away and find out whether you
19 are right about that -- you said it is a personal view and
20 the cancer people might disagree with you -- but with this
21 important qualification in any event, as I understand it,
22 that what you propose as being the influence of diet on
23 cancer is in the promotion of cancers which have already
24 been initiated?
25 A. Yes.
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27 Q. That is an important distinction?
28 A. It is.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Thank you. My Lord, that is all I have to ask.
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32 THE WITNESS: Could I add to that your Lordship?
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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36 THE WITNESS: That not necessarily exclusively.
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38 MR. RAMPTON: No, I understand that. We may discuss that
39 further in due course, Professor Crawford.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When do we anticipate we might come back to
42 Professor Crawford?
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44 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, can I hand up a retyped calendar and at
45 the same time an updated of the "What Happened in Court"
46 diary.
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48 MR. MORRIS: Is the witness released now?
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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52 (The witness withdrew)
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54 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I hope I do not need to say it, but just
55 the same I would invite your Lordship to remind the
56 Defendants that both Mr. Cannon and Professor Crawford are
57 in perdah so far as the Defendants are concerned until
58 they have finished their evidence.
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Remember that.
