Occupational magnetic field exposure and site-specific cancer incidence: A Swedish cohort study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 323-332

  Floderus, Birgitta ^a,b   Stenlund, Carin ^a,b   Persson, Tomas ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cohort study; Magnetic fields; Occupation; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BILE DUCT CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MELANOMA; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SWEDEN; TESTIS CANCER; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SWEDEN; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032828351     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008953920877     Document Type: Article

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