Magnetic fields and childhood cancers

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 41-49

  Poole, Charles ^a   Ozonoff, David ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b St Luke's Sinai Samaritan Med C   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f Dept of Environmental Health ^*  (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD CANCER; DOSE RESPONSE ANALYSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGISTS;

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH HAZARDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; ONCOLOGY; PEDIATRICS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; HUMAN; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 0030199826     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/51.511981     Document Type: Article

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