Residential proximity to electricity transmission and distribution equipment and risk of childhood leukemia, childhood lymphoma, and childhood nervous system tumors: systematic review, evaluation, and meta-analysis review

Exposure

• • 50/60 Hz
  • magnetic field
• • power transmission line

Population

Endpoint

• cancer: childhood leukemia, childhood lymphoma and childhood nervous system tumor
• epidemiology: exposure assessment, quality of methods, cancer risk, see "cancer"

Study funded by

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), North Carolina, USA

Comments on this article

• Sokejima S et al. (1996): Electric power consumption and leukaemia death rate in Japan
• Feychting M et al. (1995): Electromagnetic fields and childhood cancer: meta-analysis