IP: No Brain Cancer Link To Mobile Phones - U.S. Expert fro m TELECOM Digest V19 #248

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: Mike Pollock <pheel () sprynet com>
> Subject: No Brain Cancer Link To Mobile Phones - U.S. Expert
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:06:47 -0400
> Organization: It's A Mike!
>
>
> DUBLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. radiation expert said Friday extensive
> studies had shown there was no evidence of a link between mobile phone
> use and brain cancer, but that there were always more studies to be
> done.
>
> John Molder, a professor of radiation oncology from the Medical
> College of Wisconsin, said during a visit to Dublin there was ``no
> evidence of hazard whatsoever'' from the use of mobile phones.
>
> ``There are always more studies that can be done,'' Molder said. ``But
> there have already been extensive studies in human and animals and no
> link between cell (mobile) phone use and brain cancer has been
> found.''
>
> Swedish researchers have said mobile phone users could be two and a
> half times more likely to develop brain cancer than those who do not,
> but Molder said he had studied their research and found the numbers
> had no statistical significance.
>
> The evidence of brain tumors in mobile phone users was in a tiny
> sub-group of about five people, he told a news conference on the last
> day of the 11th International Congress on Radiation Research in
> Dublin.
>
> The radiation congress, held every four years since 1959, started on
> July 18 and covered a wide spectrum of radiation topics including
> cancer therapy and the exposure of airline crews to cosmic radiation.
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990723/ts/mobile
> s_cancer_1.html