Cellular-telephone use and brain tumors

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 79-86

  Inskip, Peter D ^a,g   Tarone, Robert E ^a   Hatch, Elizabeth E ^a   Wilcosky, Timothy C ^b   Shapiro, William R ^c   Selker, Robert G ^d   Fine, Howard A ^a   Black, Peter M ^e   Loeffler, Jay S ^f   Linet, Martha S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Executive Plaza S ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RADIO WAVES; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0035843254     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200101113440201     Document Type: Article

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