Lung Cancer Investigator Admits Funding by Tobacco Money
Claudia I. Henschke, M.D., Ph.D., principal investigator of the controversial 2006 I-ELCAP (International Early Lung Cancer Action Program) study, has admitted 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.”
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