This is a correction to: Michael Hauptmann, Robert D Daniels, Elisabeth Cardis, Harry M Cullings, Gerald Kendall, Dominique Laurier, Martha S Linet, Mark P Little, Jay H Lubin, Dale L Preston, David B Richardson, Daniel O Stram, Isabelle Thierry-Chef, Mary K Schubauer-Berigan, Ethel S Gilbert, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, Epidemiological Studies of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation and Cancer: Summary Bias Assessment and Meta-Analysis, JNCI Monographs, Volume 2020, Issue 56, July 2020, Pages 188–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/jncimonographs/lgaa010
In the originally published version of this manuscript, in Supplementary table 1, the sign of the estimate for the Rocketdyne workers was wrong. The correct estimate is -0.02 instead of 0.02. Correct entries in the last two columns of this row are 0 instead of 1. In the row “ERR>0”, the last two columns should read “16 of 22” and “12 of 18”, respectively. Corresponding p-values in the line “p-value (1-sided)” should be 0.03 and 0.12, respectively.
Supplementary Table 1:
Results of the sign test for the excess relative risk from studies of solid tumors
Study | Reference | ERR at 100 mGy | ERR positive (1) or negative (0) | Robust studies* |
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Environmental | ||||
Three Mile Island | Han et al. 2011 (19) | −1 | 0 | 0 |
Chinese background | Tao et al. 2012 (20) | −0.101 | 0 | 0 |
GB background | Kendall et al. 2013 (21) | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Swiss background | Spycher et al. 2015 (22) | 2.8 | 1 | 1 |
Techa River | Davis et al. 2015 (23) | 0.077 | 1 | 1 |
Taiwanese residents | Hsieh et al. 2017 (24) | 0.04 | 1 | 1 |
Medical | ||||
Canadian cardiac imaging | Eisenberg et al. 2011 (25) | 0.3 | 1 | x |
French Pediatric CT (brain tumors) | Journey et al. 2016 (26) | 0.7 | 1 | 1 |
UK Pediatric CT (brain tumors) | Berrington et al. 2016 (27) | 1.2 | 1 | 1 |
PIRATES (thyroid cancer) | Lubin et al. 2017 (28) | 0.96 | 1 | 1 |
Occupational | ||||
Korean workers | Ahn et al. 2008 (29) | 0.72 | 1 | x |
UKNRRW | Muirhead et al. 2009 (30) | 0.03 | 1 | 1 |
Korean nuclear workers | Jeong et al. 2010 (31) | 0.21 | 1 | 1 |
Rocketdyne workers | Boice et al. 2011 (32) | −0.02 | 0 | 0 |
Japanese workers | Akiba et al. 2012 (33) | 0.13 | 1 | X |
Canadian nuclear workers | Zablotska et al. 2014 (34) | −0.12 | 0 | 0 |
German nuclear workers | Merzenich et al. 2014 (35) | −0.1 | 0 | 0 |
US nuclear workers | Schubauer-Berigan et al. 2015 (36) | 0.01 | 1 | 1 |
USRT (breast cancer) | Preston et al. 2016 (12) | 0.07 | 1 | X |
USRT (brain cancer) | Kitahara et al. 2017 (10) | 0.1 | 1 | 1 |
USRT (skin cancer) | Lee et al. 2015 (11) | −0.001 | 0 | 0 |
French nuclear workers | Leuraud et al 2017 (37) | 0.04 | 1 | 1 |
ERR>0 | 16 of 22 | 12 of 18 | ||
p-value (1-sided) | 0.03 | 0.12 |
* Robust studies are all studies except those where bias adjustment could move a positive ERR towards the null.
x - study was excluded as bias adjustment could move a positive ERR towards the null.
Updated supplementary data is given below. No corrections are necessary in the manuscript.
These details have been corrected only in this correction notice to preserve the published version of record.
Supplementary Table 2:
Results of the sign test for the excess relative risk from studies of leukemia
Leukemia | ||||
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Study | Refeence | ERR at 100 mGy | ERR positive (1) or negative (0) | Robust studies* |
Environmental | ||||
Chornobyl residents | Davis et al. 2006 (16) | 3.2 | 1 | x |
Three Mile Island | Han et al. 2011 (19) | 19 | 1 | 1 |
Chinese background | Tao et al. 2012 (20) | 1.068 | 1 | x |
GB background | Kendall et al. 2013 (21) | 12 | 1 | 1 |
Swiss background | Spycher et al. 2015 (22) | 3.6 | 1 | 1 |
Finnish background | Nikkila et al. 2016 (38) | −3 | 0 | 0 |
Taiwanese residents | Hsieh et al. 2017 (24) | 0.15 | 1 | 1 |
Medical | ||||
French Pediatric CT | Journey et al. 2016 (26) | 1.6 | 1 | 1 |
UK Pediatric CT | Berrington et al. 2016 (27) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Occupational | ||||
Korean workers | Ahn et al. 2008 (29) | 1.68 | 1 | x |
Chornobyl liquidators | Kesminiene et al 2008 (17) | 0.5 | 1 | x |
UKNRRW | Muirhead et al. 2009 (30) | 0.18 | 1 | 1 |
Rocketdyne workers | Boice et al. 2011 (32) | 0.06 | 1 | 1 |
Japanese workers | Akiba et al. 2012 (33) | −0.19 | 0 | 0 |
Ukrainian Chornobyl liquidators | Zablotska et al. 2013 (18) | 0.221 | 1 | x |
Canadian nuclear workers | Zablotska et al. 2014 (34) | 1.44 | 1 | 1 |
German nuclear workers | Merzenich et al. 2014 (35) | 0.4 | 1 | 1 |
US nuclear workers | Schubauer-Berigan et al. 2015 (36) | 0.17 | 1 | 1 |
US atomic veterans | Caldwell et al. 2016 (39) | −0.5 | 0 | 0 |
French nuclear workers | Leuraud et al. 2017 (37) | 0.35 | 1 | 1 |
ERR>0 | 17 of 20 | 12 of 15 | ||
p-value (1-sided) | 0.001 | 0.02 |
* Robust studies are all studies except those where bias adjustment could move a positive ERR towards the null.
x - study was excluded as bias adjustment could move a positive ERR towards the null.