Childhood leukemia and proximity to nuclear power plants: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Mueller ◽  
Clare Gilham
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Childhood Leukemia ◽  
Meta Analysis

scholarly journals Childhood leukemia around French nuclear power plants: The geocap study, 2002-2007. Responses to letters

2012 ◽  
Vol 131 (12) ◽  
pp. 2974-2975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Clavel ◽  
Claire Sermage-Faure ◽  
Stéphanie Goujon-Bellec ◽  
Jérémie Rudant ◽  
Aurélie Guyot-Goubin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Childhood Leukemia

scholarly journals Cancer incidence in the vicinity of Finnish nuclear power plants: an emphasis on childhood leukemia

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirpa Heinävaara ◽  
Salla Toikkanen ◽  
Kari Pasanen ◽  
Pia K. Verkasalo ◽  
Päivi Kurttio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Childhood Leukemia

One-eyed Epidemiologic Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants

2011 ◽  
Vol 231 (5-6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Greiser
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Publication Bias ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Childhood Leukaemia ◽  
Sufficient Data ◽  
Methodological Errors ◽  
Incident Cases

SummaryKrämer and Arminger in a preceding article in this volume insinuated that in a meta-analysis on childhood leukaemia in the vicinity of nuclear power plants (NPP) in five countries gross methodological errors had led to falsified statistics. Major assumptions were a) arbitrary exclusion of publications with nil results, and b) publication bias in conduct of the meta-analysis. It is demonstrated that all appropriate publications providing data on incident cases of leukaemia and on the underlying population or rates of incidence with confidence intervals had been included. In addition it is demonstrated that all publications excluded from the meta-analysis either did not provide sufficient data on NPPs or cases of these publications had been already included into the meta-analysis from other publications.

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