Mobile phones, brain tumors, and the interphone study: Where are we now?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1534-1538

  Swerdlow, Anthony J ^a   Feychting, Maria ^b   Green, Adele C ^c,d   Kheifets, Leeka ^e   Savitz, David A ^f,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Department of Community Health ^*  (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain cancer; Cancer and radiation; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREND STUDY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80455144534     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103693     Document Type: Article

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