The corresponding author of a 2014 paper in the Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology has retracted the article because he was a bit too generous with his list of coauthors.
The article, “Outcome of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer: A tertiary care centre experience,” reviewed medical records from a local population of breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy. It came from a group at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, in Chandigarh. The first author was Tapesh Bhattacharyya, followed by four other names.
According to the notice:
The article, “Outcome of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer: A tertiary care centre experience” published in page 215-20, Volume 35, July-September 2014 issue of Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology[1] hereby stands retracted on the request of the corresponding author who has admitted and informed of mistakenly including names of authors who never contributed towards the article.
We emailed Bhattacharyya for a comment and will update this post if we learn more.
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