NEJM Does About-Face, Issues Correction

From The Cancer Letter, April 4, 2008:

The New England Journal of Medicine published a correction, a clarification, and an editorial addressing the conflicts of interest that were not disclosed by a group of researchers who advocate computed tomography screening for lung cancer.

The corrective actions taken by the NEJM on April 2 represent an about-face in the handling of the controversy over publication of a paper  by the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program.

Earlier, the journal’s editors argued that the I-ELCAP leaders Claudia Henschke and David Yankelevitz, both of Weill Cornell Medical College, had properly declared their conflicts, but the editors deemed these not relevant to the paper, which was published in the Oct. 26, 2006, issue of the journal.

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