Latest (largest)Study Disputes Cell Phone-Cancer Link

A Danish study - the largest study to date - published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that cell phones do not trigger cancer. The Washington Post reports.

''Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had owned cell phones for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago.

They matched phone records to the famed Danish Cancer Registry that records every citizen who gets the disease nd reported Tuesday that cell-phone callers are no more likely than anyone else to suffer a range of cancer types.

''We found no evidence for an association between tumor risk and cellular telephone use among either short-term or long-term users. Moreover, the narrow confidence intervals provide evidence that any large association of risk of cancer and cellular telephone use can be excluded.''

''As the body of evidence accumulates, people can become more reassured that these devices are safe, but the final word is not there yet,'' said Joshua Muscat of Pennsylvania State University, who also has studied cell phones and cancer.

The Danish Cancer Society plan to continue tracking the Danish callers until at least some have used the phones for 30 years.''
12/8/2006 4:34:51 PM
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