| Autor: |
R. P. Liburdy, S. M. J. Afzal |
| Rok vydání: |
1999 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine ISBN: 9781461372080 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4615-4867-6_111 |
| Popis: |
During the past decade, several epidemiological studies have examined the relationship of occupational exposure of electric and magnetic fields to the cancer of the central nervous system (CNS). Recently, Kheifets and colleagues1 published a meta-analysis of twenty-nine of these occupational exposure studies and concluded that there is a small but significant increase in the incidence of the cancer of the CNS among workers exposed to electric and magnetic fields. They found that risk was higher for gliomas in workers associated with the broad category of electrical occupations. They indicated that study design biases were not likely to have influenced the outcome of the above mentioned twenty-nine studies. We found their study interesting and decided to address the question of possible effects of magnetic fields on human brain tumor cell growth, in vitro. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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