Originally published February 22 2006
Norwegian doctor admits to falsifying more studies of mouth cancer
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Jon Sudbo, a cancer expert at Norway's Radium Hospital, has recently admitted to fabricating data for two more articles on oral cancer.
A disgraced Norwegian doctor has admitted faking data for two articles about cancer of the mouth in leading medical journals in addition to one already exposed as a fabrication, his lawyer said on Monday.
"There were three articles in which the basic material was not correctly handled," Erling Lyngtveit told NRK public radio of work by Jon Sudbo, a cancer expert at Norway's Radium Hospital.
He said Sudbo had admitted making up data for an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 2004 and another in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in March 2005, as well as one in the Lancet in October 2005 exposed as false a week ago.
He said that 44-year-old Sudbo, who has not commented publicly on his motives, would cooperate fully with investigators.
Sudbo had also said that none of his co-authors knew that he was faking data.
"It's really about the things that in other contexts are positive and drive research forward -- honor, fame, success, to be able to point to achievements," he said.
Sudbo has been on sick leave since his hospital, also known as the Cooperative Cancer Center, first accused him of cheating with data in his article in the Lancet.
In the Lancet article, Sudbo and co-authors said that commonly used painkillers can reduce the risks of mouth cancer in smokers but that long-term use could raise the chances of dying from heart disease.
But the hospital said that he made up patients for the apparent review of 454 people with oral cancer.
Lyngtveit told the daily Aftenposten that Sudbo had falsely claimed to have based his conclusions in the New England Journal of Medicine cancer study on Norway's register of deaths.
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