CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 38, 126-126, Copyright
© 1988 by American Cancer Society
Erratum: Author's Correction
Dr. Alex Ferenczy, author of the article, "Laser Treatment of Patients with Condylomata and Squamous Carcinoma Precursors of the Lower Female Genital Tract," published in the November/December 1987 issue (Ca 37:334-347, 1987), has informed us that there was an error in the labeling of Tables 6 and 7, which appear on page 345. In both tables, the Failure Rates were inadvertently labeled Cure Rates. Thus, in Table 6, "Laser Treatment Results for Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia (Multifocal Lesions)," for the 17 patients with laser margins of less than 5 mm, the failure rate (not the cure rate) was 23.5 percent; and for the 9 patients with laser margins of 10-20 mm, the failure rate was 11.0 percent. Similarly, in Table 7, "Laser Treatment Results for Condylomata Acuminata of the Vulva and/or Anal/Perianal Regions," for the 105 patients with laser margins of less than 5 mm, the failure rate was 20 percent; and for the 55 patients with laser margins of 10-20 mm, the failure rate was 7 percent. However, in Table 5, "Laser Treatment Results for Vaginal Intraepithelial Neoplasia," which appears on the same page, the data are presented correctly, as cure rates. Thus, in Table 5, for the 5 patients with a single lesion, the cure rate is 100 percent; for the 15 patients with multifocal lesions, the cure rate is 75 percent; and for the total of 20 patients, the cure rate is 80 percent.
