April 22, 2007 at 19:35:48

Secret AstraZeneca Audio Tapes: Violation of Corporate Integrity Agreement?

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1) Get the doctor to start talking about letrozole and then compare it to Arimidex without a head to head study.
2) Minimize the efficacy of letrozole by slamming their trial.
3) Imply that Arimidex efficacy is better than letrozole WITHOUT ANY COMPARATIVE DATA. Remember, we're talking CANCER patients here, not restless leg syndrome.

And we're talking about a company which has been forced by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to follow certain procedures and ethics, based on their past crimes.

Basically through the documents and slide presentations published earlier here, we've now shown that AstraZeneca sales, marketing and training have a coordinated campaign to sell against letrozole.

WITHOUT ANY COMPARATIVE DATA.

The OIG has been notified and will have to determine if this violates AstraZeneca's policy, which by definition also would be a violation of AZ's Corporate Integrity Agreement.

For earlier coverage of this story, click links for CNBC television and print news media.

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Peter Rost M.D. Peter Rost, M.D., is a former Vice President of Pfizer. He is the author of "The Whistleblower, Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman" and "more...)

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