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Author Clarifies Source of Funding for Cancer Study 

A 2006 study claiming 80 percent of lung cancer deaths may be prevented with CT scans was paid for by a tobacco company, The New England Journal of Medicine said in corrections and an editorial. Vector Group, parent of Liggett Tobacco, contributed $3.6 million, or “virtually all” of the financing for the Foundation for Lung Cancer, which backed the study, the author Claudia Henschke said in a clarification published online by the journal.

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