Original Contribution Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors—A Nationwide Case-Control Study
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1 Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. 2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 3 Radiation Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. 4 Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. 5 Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
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