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To the Editor: On behalf of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP), we wish to call your attention to misconduct by one of its investigators, Dr. Roger Poisson, at St. Luc Hospital in Montreal. Instances of falsification and fabrication of data affect several studies published by members of the NSABP in the Journal: Protocols B-06,^1,2 B-13,³ and B-14⁴.

In June 1990, a protocol statistician at the NSABP reported a discrepancy in the date of surgery between two copies of what appeared to be identical operative reports for a patient who had been randomly assigned to treatment . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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