ALBANY (AP) - A former upstate New York cancer specialist who failed to keep accurate case histories on patients in drug studies has been sentenced to pay more than $500,000 in fines and restitution and serve five years' probation.

Dr. James Holland was fired from the Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany in 2003 along with researcher Paul Kornak. He pleaded guilty in 2007 to federal charges that he failed to establish and maintain adequate records and allowed patients to be improperly enrolled in the drug experiments.

Kornak admitted forging medical records at the hospital to make dozens of patients eligible to participate in the studies. He was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison on multiple charges.

The 51-year-old Holland now lives in Thomasville, Ga. He was sentenced Friday.