Day 254 - 22 May 96 - Page 35


     
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     2        "The reproductive history of breast cancer incidence due to
     3        higher prevalence of factors for breast cancer which are
     4        related to reproductive history", would you agree that age
     5        at menarche is something that can be affected by diet?
     6        A.  Indeed, yes.  Diet as a whole.
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     8   Q.   Just going back a bit, when you have talked about
     9        "inconsistency between animal evidence and human studies,
    10        not reversible trials", would you say that there has been a
    11        lack of consistency in the animal evidence and human
    12        studies, not reversible trials, that diets high in
    13        saturated fats, say about 40 per cent of the energy, cause
    14        blood vessel lesions and increase the risk of the blood to
    15        clot?
    16        A.  I would have to say that I am not an expert on that
    17        aspect of the studies.
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    19   Q.   Right.  Would you agree that diets rich in saturated fats
    20        have consistently been found to make blood platelets sticky
    21        and raise the tendency of the blood to clot?
    22        A.  Again, I do not think I can comment on that.
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    24   Q.   I am going to deal with the end part of your statement
    25        because I think I can probably deal with that before lunch
    26        rather than moving onto to the middle part.
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    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.
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    30   MS. STEEL:   The thing about Professor Crawford's hypothesis.
    31        The way where you have said on page 12 that:
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    33        "Professor Crawford has stated that areas of atheroma in
    34        blood vessels might act as the foci where tumour cells may
    35        land"--  I will not read it all out -- and so on.  Can I
    36        ask where you got that from?
    37        A.  That was from a transcript of his court appearance.
    38
    39   Q.   So you read his transcript and that was where you got it
    40        from?
    41        A.  Yes.
    42
    43   Q.   Right.  Because it is not what is said in the statement; I
    44        have not checked the statement.
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    46   MR. RAMPTON: Your Lordship will recall asking us to ask Dr.
    47        Arnott to comment on that particular theory.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not think that is the attack.  I do not
    50        want to blunder in on your cross-examination but you 
    51        put ---- 
    52 
    53   MS. STEEL:  Professor Crawford said that that is not exactly
    54        what he said.
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    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  Do you want to talk about the unhealthy
    57        endothelia, whether atheroma or not?  Is that what you are
    58        going for?  I think you should aim at it because I may
    59        blunder in and spoil some point which you want to make.
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