Cellular telephone use and time trends in brain tumour mortality in Switzerland from 1969 to 2002

European Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-82

  Röösli, Martin ^a,c   Michel, Gisela ^a,b   Kuehni, Claudia E ^a,b   Spoerri, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain tumour; Mobile phone; Mortality; Time trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; TREND STUDY;

EID: 33846192054     PISSN: 09598278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cej.0000203618.61936.cd     Document Type: Article

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