Long-term mobile phone use and brain tumor risk

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 526-535

  Lönn, Stefan ^a   Ahlbom, Anders ^a   Hall, Per ^a   Feychting, Maria ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Cellular phone; Glioma; Meningioma

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CANCER; HEALTH RISK; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; RISK FACTOR; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MOBILE PHONE; PARIETAL LOBE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SWEDEN; TEMPORAL LOBE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLULAR PHONE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 14844292091     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwi091     Document Type: Article

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