The INTERPHONE study: design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population.

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Published in Eur J Epidemiol on July 18, 2007

Authors

Elisabeth Cardis1, Lesley Richardson, Isabelle Deltour, Bruce Armstrong, Maria Feychting, Christoffer Johansen, Monique Kilkenny, Patricia McKinney, Baruch Modan, Siegal Sadetzki, Joachim Schüz, Anthony Swerdlow, Martine Vrijheid, Anssi Auvinen, Gabriele Berg, Maria Blettner, Joseph Bowman, Julianne Brown, Angela Chetrit, Helle Collatz Christensen, Angus Cook, Sarah Hepworth, Graham Giles, Martine Hours, Ivano Iavarone, Avital Jarus-Hakak, Lars Klaeboe, Daniel Krewski, Susanna Lagorio, Stefan Lönn, Simon Mann, Mary McBride, Kenneth Muir, Louise Nadon, Marie-Elise Parent, Neil Pearce, Tiina Salminen, Minouk Schoemaker, Brigitte Schlehofer, Jack Siemiatycki, Masao Taki, Toru Takebayashi, Tore Tynes, Martie van Tongeren, Paolo Vecchia, Joe Wiart, Alistair Woodward, Naohito Yamaguchi

Author Affiliations

1: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372, Lyon, Cedex 08, France. cardis@iarc.fr

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