Open AccessOccupational exposure to ionizing radiation and electromagnetic fields in relation to the risk of thyroid cancer in Sweden
Author(s) -
Virginia Lope,
Beatriz PérezGómez,
Núria Aragonés,
Gonzalo LópezAbente,
Per Gustavsson,
Birgitta Floderus,
Mustafa Dosemeci,
Agustín Silva,
Marina Pollán
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.1011
Subject(s) - thyroid cancer , medicine , ionizing radiation , relative risk , poisson regression , cohort , population , cohort study , occupational medicine , thyroid , confidence interval , cancer , occupational exposure , incidence (geometry) , risk factor , demography , environmental health , irradiation , mathematics , physics , sociology , nuclear physics , geometry
This study sought to ascertain the risk of thyroid cancer in relation to occupational exposure to ionizing radiation and extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELFMF) in a cohort representative of Sweden's gainfully employed population.