Disconnecting Phones and Tumors

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:12:43 -0400
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Disconnecting Phones and Tumors

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
April 26, 2005

Good news for cellphone users: a new study published in the April
issue of the journal Neurology shows no connection between cellphone
use and the risk of developing a brain tumor.

A Danish survey of 427 people with brain tumors and 822 with no
tumors found no difference in their frequency of cellphone use or the
number of years they had used a cellphone. In addition, in the
patients who had brain tumors, there was no correlation between the
location of the lesion and the side of the head they usually used for
talking on the phone.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/health/26cell.html?ex=1272168000&en=c60fc0
d304516de4&ei=5090



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