Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the risk of early childhood cancers associated with the mother's exposure to radiofrequency from and proximity to macrocell mobile phone base stations (masts) during pregnancy.

Design

Case-control study.

Setting

Cancer registry and national birth register data in Great Britain.

Participants

1397 cases of cancer in children aged 0-4 from national cancer registry 1999-2001 and 5588 birth controls from national birth register, individually matched by sex and date of birth (four controls per case).

Main outcome measures

Incidence of cancers of the brain and central nervous system, leukaemia, and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, and all cancers combined, adjusted for small area measures of education level, socioeconomic deprivation, populatio

SUBMITTER: Elliott P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3191724 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature