Comment on ‘Residential distance at birth from overhead high-voltage powerlines: childhood cancer risk in Britain 1962–2008’
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Childhood cancer in relation to distance from high voltage power lines in England and Wales: a case-control study.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an association between distance of home address at birth from high voltage power lines and the incidence of leukaemia and other cancers in children in England and Wales. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Cancer registry and National Grid records. SUBJECTS Records of 29 081 children with cancer, including 9700 with leukaemia. Children were aged 0-14...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.334