More on Big Tobacco and lung cancer funding

[Guest guest]

Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. Weekly CancerDecisions.com

Newsletter #335 04/06/08

 

THE MOSS REPORTS - CANCER DECISIONS NEWSLETTER

 

WHO PROFITS FROM LUNG CANCER SCREENING? - PART I

 

Almost 18 months after publication of a study on lung cancer

screening

in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Claudia Henschke, the

study's lead author, has disclosed that her research was funded to

the

tune of $3.6 million by the tobacco industry. The money came from

Liggett Tobacco, and was channeled through an innocent-sounding

charity

- the Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention &

Treatment. - that was set up by Dr. Henschke at Weill Cornell Medical

Center.

 

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