Re: Asbestos and product defence science

Our plain-English summary of Re: Asbestos and product defence science, by P. Boffetta, C. La Vecchia (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2016).

The study

• Authors: P. Boffetta, C. La Vecchia
• Journal: International Journal of Epidemiology
• Published: 2016;45(5):1690-1691
• Type of article: Letter, Comment
• Cited by: 1 article, as counted by NIH iCite
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher

In plain English

The text supplied with this citation is not the cited letter. The citation is a 2016 letter by Boffetta and La Vecchia in the International Journal of Epidemiology, which the reply's own reference list gives as volume 45, pages 1690–91. The text provided is a different item: the authors' critics, Terracini and Mirabelli of the University of Turin, wrote a reply to that letter, titled 'Asbestos and product defence science. Response to: Boffetta and La Vecchia', printed on pages 1692 to 1693 of the same issue. Because the cited letter's own text was not available, this record does not report its arguments, figures or conclusions. The reply describes the cited letter from the critics' point of view, and those descriptions should not be read as the cited authors' own words. The reply also contains its own table of modelled estimates. Those estimates are Terracini and Mirabelli's calculations, not Boffetta and La Vecchia's, and are not credited to the cited letter here. The correct text of the cited letter needs to be obtained before it can be summarized.

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