AACR Apologizes for Delays in Retracting Papers

Nine of the most recent retractions from AACR journals are for papers coauthored by embattled cancer researcher Bharat Aggarwal.

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Much of Aggarwal’s research focused on potential anticancer effects of curcumin, a chemical found in turmeric.
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The American Association for Cancer Research has issued retractions, corrections, or editor’s notes for a handful papers across five of its journals and is sorry for the time it’s taken to do so, according to a statement published yesterday (September 4) in Cancer Research. Nine of those retractions relate to papers coauthored by cancer researcher Bharat Aggarwal, formerly of the University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center, Retraction Watch reports.

“Unfortunately, we have been delayed in correcting the published record, and for this we apologize,” the statement reads. “We have significantly improved our procedures and processes so that, going forward, we can make these corrections to the published record in a more timely manner.”

MD Anderson began an investigation into Aggarwal’s work in 2012; numerous papers by Aggarwal have since been ...

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