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E Christina Persson1, Meredith S Shiels, Sanford M Dawsey, Kishor Bhatia, Lesley A Anderson, Eric A Engels.
Abstract
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Authors. The authors recently discovered two programming errors that affected the results in their article on the epidemiology of esophageal and stomach cancers in human immunodeficiency virus infected people. As a result of these errors, the standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were too high. The corrected SIRs are all lower than the authors reported, and the corrected SIR for stomach cancer is no longer significantly elevated. These errors affect Tables 2-5 in the paper. Because the new findings alter the conclusions, the editors and authors have jointly made the decision to retract the paper. The authors would like to express their sincere regret at the errors in their initial report and any inconvenience or confusion that they created. The corrected results may be obtained by contacting the corresponding author, Dr. Eric A. Engels, by email at engelse@exchange.nih.gov.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22796240 PMCID: PMC4236003 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.07.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gastroenterology ISSN: 0016-5085 Impact factor: 22.682