Troubled Multi-Laboratory SV40 Study Making Second Try at Publication

icResultsendic of a multi-lab study designed to test techniques used to look for SV40 in mesothelioma are yielding objections from the study's own participants, who are for a second time advising against publishing the study because they say it is flawed.

photo-1The study, which got under way on the heels of a 1997 meeting held to discuss SV40, mesothelioma and other rare cancers, chronicles results of a nine-laboratory investigation of methods used to detect SV40 DNA in mesothelioma tumor specimens.

Titled 'A Multicenter Evaluation of Assays for Detection of SV40 DNA and Results in Masked Mesothelioma Specimens,' the study …