Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among electric utility workers in Ontario: The evaluation of alternate indices of exposure to 60 Hz electric and magnetic fields

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 249-257

  Villeneuve, Paul J ^a,b   Agnew, David A ^a,c   Miller, Anthony B ^a   Corey, Paul N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO POWER GENERATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electric fields; Magnetic fields; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC HAZARD; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONTARIO; POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0034099465     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.4.249     Document Type: Article

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