Commentary: mobile phones and cancer: next steps after the 2011 IARC review.

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Published in Epidemiology on January 01, 2014

Authors

Jonathan M Samet1, Kurt Straif, Joachim Schüz, Rodolfo Saracci

Author Affiliations

1: From the aDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA; bInstitute for Global Health, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; cSection of IARC Monographs, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; dSection of Environment and Radiations, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; and eInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

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