Re: Comment to “Relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and mesothelioma risk: A systematic review of the scientific literature and meta‐analysis”

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To the Editor, Cancer Medicine Sir,After the publication of our meta-analysis entitled, "Relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and mesothelioma risk: A systematic review of the scientific literature and meta-analysis", 1 we have become aware of an additional study that reported results on mesothelioma mortality among workers exposed to ionizing radiation. Mumma and coworkers 2 studied a cohort of 253,632 United States workers who were routinely monitored for external radiation, including 30,724 industrial radiographers (IR) at shipyards, 142,583 workers at nuclear power plants (NPP), and 83,441 IR who had not worked at an NPP or shipyard. The mean cumulative lung dose was 28.6 mGy. In a follow-up from 1969 through 2011, comprising almost 6.5 million person-years, 421 deaths This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.