What is it about?

Numbers of low-grade brain tumours are decreasing and high-grade, aggressive, brain tumours are steadily increasing year on year in England - we discuss results in some other countries.

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Why is it important?

We discuss the need for careful choice of which Standard Population to use to adjust data.

Perspectives

We raise the importance of lifestyle and other environmental and imagining factors in the etiology of brain tumours.

Alasdair Philips
Children with Cancer UK (national research charity)

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This page is a summary of: Authors’ Comment on “Brain Tumours: Rise in Glioblastoma Multiforme Incidence in England 1995–2015 Suggests an Adverse Environmental or Lifestyle Factor”, Journal of Environmental and Public Health, June 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2018/2170208.
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