Retracted: Increased risk of stomach and esophageal malignancies in people with AIDS

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Authors. The authors recently discovered two programming errors that affected the results in their article on the epidemiology of esophageal and stomach cancers in human immunodeficiency virus infected people. As a result of these errors, the standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were too high. The corrected SIRs are all lower than the authors reported, and the corrected SIR for stomach cancer is no longer significantly elevated. These errors affect Tables 2-5 in the paper. Because the new findings alter the conclusions, the editors and authors have jointly made the decision to retract the paper. The authors would like to express their sincere regret at the errors in their initial report and any inconvenience or confusion that they created. The corrected results may be obtained by contacting the corresponding author, Dr. Eric A. Engels, by email at engelse@exchange.nih.gov.

Figure 1

Incidence of stomach and esophageal carcinoma and NHL in people with AIDS by age. Incidence rates of stomach (circles) and esophageal (triangles) malignancies in subjects 0–29, 30–49, 50–69, and 70+ years old. Solid lines show carcinomas, and dashed lines show NHLs. There were no cases of NHL among 70+ year olds. The vertical axis is broken to allow depiction of this incidence rate of zero on the logarithmic scale.

Figure 2

Incidence of stomach and esophageal carcinoma and NHL in people with AIDS by year. Age-adjusted incidence rates of stomach (circles) and esophageal (triangles) malignancies between 1980 and 2007. Solid lines show carcinomas, and dashed lines show NHLs. For esophageal carcinoma, there were no cases during 1980–1989. The vertical axis is broken to allow depiction of this incidence rate of zero on the logarithmic scale.