TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary brain cancer in adults and the use of common household appliances
T2 - A case-control study
AU - Mutnick, Andrew
AU - Muscat, Joshua E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by a grant from Wireless Technology Research and NCI CA-68739. We gratefully appreciate the collaboration of Dr. Mark Malkin of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Dr. Patrick Kelly and Dr. John Golfinos of NYU Medical Center.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Increasing attention has been paid to whether low frequency non-ionizing radiation causes human cancers. In an ongoing case-control study of primary malignant brain cancer in adults, we examined the risk associated with common household appliances. Subjects were questioned about their use of personal computers, electric heaters, electric hair dryers, electric razors, and other appliances. No risk of brain cancer was observed with regular use of any of these items. Although magnetic field exposures were not measured, this study does not implicate the use of electric appliances in adult astroglial cancers.
AB - Increasing attention has been paid to whether low frequency non-ionizing radiation causes human cancers. In an ongoing case-control study of primary malignant brain cancer in adults, we examined the risk associated with common household appliances. Subjects were questioned about their use of personal computers, electric heaters, electric hair dryers, electric razors, and other appliances. No risk of brain cancer was observed with regular use of any of these items. Although magnetic field exposures were not measured, this study does not implicate the use of electric appliances in adult astroglial cancers.
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U2 - 10.1515/REVEH.1997.12.1.59
DO - 10.1515/REVEH.1997.12.1.59
M3 - Article
C2 - 9128911
AN - SCOPUS:0030723959
SN - 0048-7554
VL - 12
SP - 59
EP - 62
JO - Reviews on Environmental Health
JF - Reviews on Environmental Health
IS - 1
ER -
