USA Says Cell Phones Won't
Kill You
The Register
Journalist: Lucy Sherriff
December 20, 2000
There is no
link between mobile phone use and brain cancer, at least in the short term,
according to a study of a group of brain cancer patients in the US.
This latest version of events comes from researchers in the States who
published their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
They said that there was a paucity if data on the subject, which made it
impossible to strongly refute or confirm concerns about mobile phone safety.
The researchers, from the American Health Foundation, found that there was
very little difference between the mobile phone habits of a group of cancer
patients and a control group who had used their phones for about three years.
The researchers used a group of 469 brain cancer patients, aged between 18 and
80, and a matched control group of 422 people. Regular use of a mobile phone
was defined as having a subscription to a cellular service provider.
The cancer patients had used their phone for a mean of 2.8 years while the
control group averaged 2.7 years. The median monthly hours of use were 2.5 for
cases and 2.2 for controls.
The scientists said that the data demonstrated no link between phone use and
cancer development, a very different thing from saying that phone use does not
cause cancer. They acknowledged that this is not the final word on the
subject.
"Further studies are needed to account for longer induction period,"
they said. "Especially with slow-growing tumours."
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