Pooled analysis of childhood brain tumours

24/08/2010

A pooled analysis of epidemiological studies of childhood brain tumours has been published.  A pooled analysis is where you take the raw data from all the relevant individual studies and perform a single analysis on the poled data.

It finds little evidence of an association with magnetic fields, in contrast to the equivalent analyses for childhood leukaemia, which do find an association.

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