Epidemiologic evidence relevant to radar (Microwave) effects

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1997, Pages 1579-1587

  Goldsmith, John R ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain cancer epidemiology; Cellular telephones and health; Leukemia epidemiology; Military electronic equipment effects; Nonionizing radiation epidemiology; TV and radio broadcast towers

Indexed keywords

ARMY; CANCER RISK; CATARACT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MUTATION RATE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 0031446025     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s61579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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