Commentary: Call me on my mobile phone...or better not?-A look at the INTERPHONE study results

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 695-698

  Saracci, Rodolfo ^a   Samet, Jonathan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EXPOSURE; GLIOMA; IONIZING RADIATION; MENINGIOMA; MOBILE PHONE; NOTE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TOBACCO;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA;

EID: 77955751193     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq082     Document Type: Note

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