Re: Cellular telephone use and cancer risk: update of a nationwide Danish cohort study.
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چکیده
Schüz et al. (1) recently reported in an update of a cohort study (2) of 420 095 cellular telephone subscribers that were followed from 1995 through 2002 for cancer incidence no increased risk for brain tumors, salivary gland tumors, eye tumors, or leukemias, endpoints of primary interest. The authors concluded “the narrow confidence intervals provide evidence that any large association of risk of cancer and cellular telephone use can be excluded”.
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Cellular telephone use and cancer risk: update of a nationwide Danish cohort.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute
دوره 99 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007