Childhood leukemia and personal monitoring of residential exposures to electric and magnetic fields in Ontario, Canada

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-243

  Green, Lois M ^a   Miller, Anthony B ^a   Agnew, David A ^b   Greenberg, Mark L ^c   Li, Jichui ^a   Villeneuve, Paul J ^a   Tibshirani, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Case control study; Childhood leukemia; Electric and magnetic fields (EMF); Personal monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PERSONAL MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MALE; ONTARIO; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0033067169     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008919408855     Document Type: Article

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