Do Cellphones Really Cause Cancer - Most Definitive Study Yet
December 30th 2008 08:53
According to a report, Interphone is about to announce the results of their largest-ever study to investigate whether cellphones cause cancer next month.
Interphone researchers have analyzed the results gathered from studies on 6,400 tumors sampled from patients in 13 countries. If the final results mirror the preliminary ones, we'd need to seriously rethink about our mobile usage. Israeli researchers participating in Interphone found that people who use cellphones regularly are 50% more likely than non-users to develop brain tumors. They also reported a 40 percent increase in tumor risk in people who use cellphones for more than a decade; they found no risk for people who have used cellphones for less than 10 years.
No one yet knows specifically how cellphones could cause cancer. The radiation they emit has too little energy to cause genetic damage, but some scientists believe that it may have indirect effects that cause cells to proliferate uncontrollably.
Although a handful of studies have been published on cellphones over the past few years, most have been statistically useless, as they surveyed too few people. Interphone study involves the largest yet sample and looks at the influence of both short- and long-term use. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
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Interphone researchers have analyzed the results gathered from studies on 6,400 tumors sampled from patients in 13 countries. If the final results mirror the preliminary ones, we'd need to seriously rethink about our mobile usage. Israeli researchers participating in Interphone found that people who use cellphones regularly are 50% more likely than non-users to develop brain tumors. They also reported a 40 percent increase in tumor risk in people who use cellphones for more than a decade; they found no risk for people who have used cellphones for less than 10 years.
No one yet knows specifically how cellphones could cause cancer. The radiation they emit has too little energy to cause genetic damage, but some scientists believe that it may have indirect effects that cause cells to proliferate uncontrollably.
Although a handful of studies have been published on cellphones over the past few years, most have been statistically useless, as they surveyed too few people. Interphone study involves the largest yet sample and looks at the influence of both short- and long-term use. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
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