Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on August 11, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(16):1189; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn274
Published by Oxford University Press 2008.
Erratum
Erratum: "The Risk of Death by Age, Sex, and Smoking Status
in the United States: Putting Health Risks in Context" by Woloshin
et al. [ J Natl Cancer Inst 2008;100(12):
845–53]. The
figures contain the following errors in data in the indicated
cells. On page 849, Figure 2: Men never smoker, age 55, all
causes combined should be 74; men never smoker, age 75, pneumonia
should be 12; men current smoker, age 45, COPD should be 2.
On page 849, Figure 3: men former smoker, age 40, prostate cancer
should be 0; men former smoker, age 45, prostate cancer should
be 0. On page 850, Figure 4: women never smoker, age 75, heart
disease should be 86; women never smoker, age 75, breast cancer
should be 10; women current smoker, age 45, pneumonia should
be 1; women current smoker, age 50, pneumonia should be 1; women
current smoker, age 70, heart disease should be 66. On page
850, Figure 5: women former smoker, age 65, lung cancer should
be 23. Corrected risk charts are available as
Supplementary data online. The authors regret the errors.
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