Response to Ahlbom et al. Comments on Hardell and Carlberg Increasing Rates of Brian Tumors in the Swedish National Inpatient Register and the Causes of Death Register. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2015, 12, 3793–3813
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We thank Ahlbom et al., the authors of [1] for their interest in our paper [2]. Since this is an important issue, the letter deserves a comprehensive and thorough response. Some authors use brain tumor incidence data from Sweden to dismiss evidence of an increased risk for brain tumors associated with the use of mobile and cordless (wireless) phones as published in peer-reviewed scientific literature.
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Comments on Hardell and Carlberg Increasing Rates of Brain Tumors in the Swedish National Inpatient Register and the Causes of Death Register. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2015, 12, 3793–3813
1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 210, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; E-Mails: [email protected] (M.F.); [email protected] (D.P.); [email protected] (M.T.) 2 Regional Cancer Center, Uppsala/Örebro and The National Board of Health and Welfare, SE-112 59 Stockholm, Sweden; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Nordic Collaborating Centre for Classifi...
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