Reply to both letters

Reply to letters from Fall and Bailey, and Muldoon.

Two letters were recently submitted to the editor regarding our recent publication (1), both of which raised important issues. Fall and Bailey identified discrepancies between their previous work (2) and ours, which deserve consideration. They also used the same correction technique of Dill and Costill (3) after maximal 223 Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS)

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Authors' reply to letters from Egilman et al and Oliver et al

Dr Egilman and colleagues claim our report 1 implies that chrysotile does not cause mesothelioma. So did the International Chrysotile Association, the website of which highlighted our paper with the misleading headline 'reliable scientific data confirms negligible role of chryso-tile in UK patients with asbestos-related lung disease'. 2 Our results are consistent with the strong evidence that c...

Letters to the Editor Myelofibrotic Transformation in Essential Thrombocythemia. Author Reply

We thank Juergen Thiele and Hans Kvasnicka for commenting on our recently published paper including 605 patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET). We provided evidence that progression to myelofibrosis (postET MF) has a prevalence of 2.8% (10-year risk of 3.9%), and that progression to acute leukemia (AL) has a prevalence of 2.3% (10-year risk of 2.6%). The first question of Thiele and Kvasn...

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