Study: No link in cell phones, cancer
Published: Jan. 20, 2006 at 12:07 PM
LONDON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Findings from the British part of the European Interphone Study show no difference in cell phone use between healthy people and those with brain cancer.
Researchers from the British universities of Leeds, Nottingham and Manchester and the Institute of Cancer Research in London interviewed 966 people who had glioma -- the most common type of brain tumor -- on their cell phone use -- intensity, frequency and duration. These findings were compared with 1,716 controls matched in other respects, but not suffering from glioma, the Times of London reported Friday.
The study, published in the online version of the British Medical Journal, show no difference in cell phone use between healthy people and those with gliomas.
The did study find an apparent increase in gliomas on the side of the head where people customarily hold the cell phone, but the researchers say that is probably because people with gliomas tend to say that whichever side of the head the tumors appear was the side on which they used their phone.
British government agencies still advise that children not use cell phones unless necessary, the BBC said.
Researchers from the British universities of Leeds, Nottingham and Manchester and the Institute of Cancer Research in London interviewed 966 people who had glioma -- the most common type of brain tumor -- on their cell phone use -- intensity, frequency and duration. These findings were compared with 1,716 controls matched in other respects, but not suffering from glioma, the Times of London reported Friday.
The study, published in the online version of the British Medical Journal, show no difference in cell phone use between healthy people and those with gliomas.
The did study find an apparent increase in gliomas on the side of the head where people customarily hold the cell phone, but the researchers say that is probably because people with gliomas tend to say that whichever side of the head the tumors appear was the side on which they used their phone.
British government agencies still advise that children not use cell phones unless necessary, the BBC said.
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