Indications of possible brain-tumour risk in mobile-phone studies: Should we be concerned?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-171

  Cardis, Elisabeth ^a   Sadetzki, Siegal ^b,c  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; EDITORIAL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIO WAVES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79951679428     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.061358     Document Type: Editorial

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