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