Mobile phones are no cancer risk
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October 22, 2011, Saturday
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MOBILE phones do not increase the risk of cancer, according to a study involving more than 350,000 people by Danish researchers.
The results, released on the British Medical Journal's website, chime with a series of other studies that have reached similar conclusions.
Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at people aged at least 30 who subscribed to mobile phone contracts, and compared their rate of brain tumors with non-subscribers between 1990 and 2007.
Malcolm Sperrin, director of Medical Physics at Britain's Royal Berkshire Hospital, said "This paper supports most other reports which do not find any detrimental effects of phone use under normal exposures."
At the end of May, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer decided cellphone use should be classified as "possibly carcinogenic" - the same as lead, chloroform and coffee.
But just over a month later the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection said scientific evidence increasingly pointed away from a link between mobile phone use and brain tumors.
The results, released on the British Medical Journal's website, chime with a series of other studies that have reached similar conclusions.
Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at people aged at least 30 who subscribed to mobile phone contracts, and compared their rate of brain tumors with non-subscribers between 1990 and 2007.
Malcolm Sperrin, director of Medical Physics at Britain's Royal Berkshire Hospital, said "This paper supports most other reports which do not find any detrimental effects of phone use under normal exposures."
At the end of May, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer decided cellphone use should be classified as "possibly carcinogenic" - the same as lead, chloroform and coffee.
But just over a month later the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection said scientific evidence increasingly pointed away from a link between mobile phone use and brain tumors.
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