Corrections November 2003

an Appropriate Basis for Nuclear Worker Compensation? Wakeford (2003) and Little (2003) wrote in response to our comments about the use of A-bomb survivor studies as a basis for U.S. nuclear worker compensation decisions (Wing and Richardson 2002). Wakeford (2003) disagrees with our statement (Wing and Richardson 2002) that there is discrepancy between childhood cancer risk estimates from in utero radiation in A-bomb and diagnostic X-ray studies. Doll and Wakeford (1997) stated that “children exposed in utero to radiation from atomic bomb explosions have not experienced any corresponding risk of cancer,” the discrepancy “being the most serious reason for doubt” about findings from the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers (OSCC) (Stewart et al. 1956; Bithell 1993), the first and largest study to demonstrate the link between childhood cancer and in utero irradiation. Doll and Wakeford (1997) concluded,