Apology

Int J Radiolion Oncology thol fhys.. Vol. 9. pp. 1971 Printed in the U .?.A All nphts reserved.

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0360-3016/83/$3.00 0 1983 Pergamon

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??Correspondence

ERRATUM:

IDIOPATHIC

PNEUMONIA

AND BONE MARROW

TRANSPLANTATION

To fhe Editor: Unfortunately. a highly significant error has crept into the paper by Barrett et al entitled, Marrow Transplantation After Low Dose Rate Total Body Irradiation,” Vol 9, No 7, page 1031: Table 5 p. 1031 should read:

No. of patients treated

Centre

Lung dose

Seattle UCLA RMH

9.20-I 1 Gy I I-12.4 Gy

100

II2

0.0548 or 0.08 0.07-O. I Gy/min

9.5-10.5 11.4-12.6

107 2

0.025 0.058

Toronto

Gy Gy

Since we abandoned Seattle’s recommendations ldiopattric Interstitial pneumonia, nor leukaemia since July 1979.

Dose rate

Gy/min Gy/min

“Interstitial

Incidence % 54 II 100

Pneumonitis

following

Bone

Mortality % 34 39 4.5 100

in July 1979 and adopted a modest T.B.I. dose, 5 Gy at 50 cGy/min, we have had no fatalities due to relapse in those patients transplanted in “complete” remission. About 85 patients have been treated

W. D. RIDER, M.B., F.R.C.P. Director of Radiation Oncology Princess Margaret Hospital 500 Sherbourne Street Toronto 5. Ontario Canada

APOLOGY To rhe Editor: We are extremely sorry for an error in our paper, “Interstitial Pneumonitis Following Bone Marrow Transplantation After Low Dose Rate Total Body Irradiation” which has been pointed out to me by Dr. Rider. I should be very grateful if you could express our apologies to Dr. Rider in print underneath

the letter that he has sent you. ANN BARRETT, M.D., B.S., F.R.C.R. The Royal Marsdenn Hospital Clifton Avenue, Sutton, Surrey England

1977