Handedness and risk of brain tumors in adults

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-225

  Inskip, Peter D ^a,e   Tarone, Robert E ^a   Brenner, Alina V ^a   Fine, Howard A ^a   Black, Peter M ^b   Shapiro, William R ^c   Selker, Robert G ^d   Linet, Martha S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Executive Plaza South ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037360736     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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