Household electromagnetic fields and breast cancer in elderly women

In Vivo

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 563-566

  Beniashvili, Djemal ^a   Avinoach, Ilana ^a   Baazov, David ^b   Zusman, Itshak ^c  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Elderly women; Low frequency electromagnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE PHONE; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEVISION;

EID: 17644394198     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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