Cellular telephone use and cancer risk: Update of a nationwide Danish cohort

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 1707-1713

  Schüz, Joachim ^a   Jacobsen, Rune ^a   Olsen, Jørgen H ^a   Boice Jr , John D ^b,c   McLaughlin, Joseph K ^b,c   Johansen, Christoffer ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCULATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EYE TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCOME; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOBILE PHONE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALIVARY GLAND TUMOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION;

CELLULAR PHONE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 33845625294     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj464     Document Type: Article

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