Lung Cancer Investigator "Discloses" Funding of Tobacco Money

MedPage -- Claudia I. Henschke, M.D., Ph.D., principal investigator of the controversial 2006 I-ELCAP (International Early Lung Cancer Action Program) study, has formally disclosed to the medical community that tobacco-industry money funded the study. In a letter published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Henschke said "$3.6 million . . . was contributed in 2000 through 2003 as an unrestricted gift by the Vector Group, the parent company of Liggett Tobacco, which manufactures cigarettes." The New England Journal of Medicine has also issued an online correction and a clarification regarding the once-again controversial study of spiral CT detection of lung cancer.

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