Meta-analyses of studies on the association between electromagnetic fields and childhood cancer

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-18

  Meinert, Rolf ^a   Michaelis, Jörg ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0029922950     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01211237     Document Type: Article

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