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1 references, handwritten.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Read it out, then get me a photocopy and
4 I will put it in.
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6 MS. STEEL: It begins on page 439, Contribution of Diet to
7 Overall Risk of Cancer; it was whether you wanted to draw
8 anything in those pages?
9 A. Thank you.
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11 Q. Or whether you thought anything was relevant. If you feel
12 it is important, it would help if you read it out so that
13 the Judge can -----
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The first question, is there something you
16 would like to refer to there?
17 A. OK. Let me just take one second and I will read it
18 briefly. Perhaps it would be helpful to read the bottom
19 paragraph on page 439 which then includes on page 44O?
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21 Q. I do not know these were the ones you were referring to
22 when you said you had had figures from somewhere else?
23 A. Well, these are among the figures that are very
24 commonly used, and that the National Cancer Institute also
25 quotes in its documents.
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27 MR. MORRIS: To explain, this is the estimates on what
28 percentage of cancers can be due to dietary factors. Do
29 you want to read out anything that you think is
30 significant?
31 A. I will just read this final paragraph.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What page is it?
34 A. It is page 439, and it is the last partial paragraph
35 on that page, which concludes at the top of page 440.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes?
38 A. I will just read that briefly it says: "Higginson and
39 Muir (1979) estimated the proportion of cancers related to
40 various aspects of environment. They believed that
41 precise proportions of cancer incidence could not be
42 attributed to diet, but they did include dietary factors
43 under the general heading 'Lifestyle'", remembering this
44 is 1979. Quoting again: "They estimated that possibly 30
45 per cent of cancers in men 60 per cent in women in the
46 Birmingham and West Midland regions of England and Wales
47 could be attributed to lifestyle, Wynder and Gori (1977)
48 were more specific. On the basis of international and
49 intrainternational comparisons of cancer incidence, the
50 differences between US mortality rates and the lowest
51 reported worldwide mortality rates for each site, and
52 results of specific case-control studies, they concluded
53 that a little more than 40 per cent of cancers in men and
54 almost 60 per cent cancers in women in the United States
55 could be attributed to dietary factors."
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57 MR. MORRIS: We apologise for not noticing that particular
58 section before photocopying it.
59 A. If it is helpful, by the way, that Wynder and Gori
60 article in 1977 was a publication of the National Cancer
