Published critiques of Wing and Richardson on Radiation WorkerCompensation

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Radsafe:

There are two commentaries just published in Environmental Health Perspectives, 

criticizing the claims of Wing and Richardson [who posited deficiencies in the 

Life Span Study [LSS] cohort which may of interest to some on the list. See 

introductory paragraph and hyperlink below of detailed letter by Mark P. Little,

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of 

Medicine, London, United Kingdom



"Comment on "Use of A-Bomb Survivor Studies as a Basis for Nuclear Worker 

Compensation"



[ Citation in PubMed ] [ Related Articles]



I read with interest the letter of Wing and Richardson (2002), which raised 

concerns about using cancer risks derived from the Life Span Study (LSS) cohort of 

Japanese atomic-bomb survivor data in radiation worker compensation plans. Wing 

and Richardson (2002) criticized the methods of dose assessment for the LSS data 

and implied that there is significant dose misclassification in this data set. 

They also stated that the atomic-bomb survivors exhibit dose- and age-related 

selective survival, citing recent work of Stewart and Kneale (2000). They also 

implied that there is inconsistency between the cancer risks observed in the LSS 

and their variation with age, and those observed in certain occupationally and 

medically exposed groups. In this letter, I will show that these criticisms of the 

LSS are without foundation....."



See:

http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/111-5/correspondence.html#comm



Following the above letter, there is a second letter from British Nuclear Fuels 

with a separate critique of Wing and Richardson (2002)





Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

[203] 367-0791





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