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. 1987 Sep;77(9):1180–1182. doi: 10.2105/ajph.77.9.1180

Brain cancer and nonoccupational risk factors: a case-control study among workers at two nuclear facilities.

A V Carpenter, W D Flanders, E L Frome, P Cole, S A Fry
PMCID: PMC1647015  PMID: 3618849

Abstract

In a nested case-control study of nuclear workers, 82 brain cancer cases were compared with 328 matched controls to investigate the possible association with nonoccupational risk factors such as histories of epilepsy or head injury. We observed a moderately strong association between brain cancer occurrence and history of epilepsy (OR = 5.7, 95 per cent CI: 1.0, 32.1), but did not find a positive association with previous head injury (OR = 0.9, 95 per cent CI: 0.2, 4.2).

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