Open AccessChildhood Leukemia and Residential Exposure to Weak Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields
Author(s) -
Maria Feychting,
Anders Ahlbom
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.2307/3432451
Subject(s) - childhood leukemia , leukemia , environmental health , medicine , immunology , lymphoblastic leukemia
There is no known mechanism by which magnetic fields of the type generated by high voltage power lines can play a role in cancer development. Nevertheless, epidemiologic research has rather consistently found associations between residential magnetic field exposure and cancer. This is most evident for leukemia in children.
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