Cell phones and cancer: What is the evidence for a connection?

Radiation Research

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 513-531

  Moulder, J E ^a   Erdreich, L S ^b   Malyapa, R S ^c   Merritt, J ^d   Pickard, W F ^e   Vijayalaxmi, ^f  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Bailey Research Associates Inc   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DAMAGE; DOSIMETRY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; REVIEW; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADAR; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIO WAVES; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032799830     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580028     Document Type: Review

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