Industrialization, electromagnetic fields, and breast cancer risk

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 145-154

  Kheifets, Leeka I ^a   Matkin, C Chantal ^b  

^a ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Electromagnetic fields; Epidemiology; Melatonin

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MELATONIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MENOPAUSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER;

EID: 0032955292     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107s1145     Document Type: Article

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