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RESPONSE: Re: A Prospective Study of Aspirin Use and the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in Women
Affiliations of authors: Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Correspondence to: Eva Schernhammer, MD, DrPH, Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: eva.schernhammer@channing.harvard.edu)
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We thank Dr. Gensini et al. for their interesting contribution. They suggest that we, as well as other authors of observational studies, should always provide number needed to treat (NNT) and number needed to harm (NNH) to assess riskbenefit profiles for public health recommendations. Our analyses, based on data from the Nurses Health