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A well designed, large sample size study has concluded that the use of
mobile phones poses no increased risk of brain cancer - at least not for the
first 10 years.

        http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994624

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More detail at site above but:

The new work is the first to be published from the huge INTERPHONE study,
organised by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). It
involves 13 different countries and aims answer definitively the question of
whether mobile phone use is safe.

In the short term, the study indicates there is no danger of developing
tumours, says principle investigator Helle Christensen, at the Institute of
Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen. Michael Clark, of the UK's National
Radiological Protection Board, is impressed by the work: "This is an
authoritative study."

When the data from all 14 studies is collected over the next 18 months, the
number of long-term users should be large enough to reveal any small
increases in risk beyond 10 years of use, says Elizabeth Cardis of the IARC,
who will be carrying out the final INTERPHONE analysis.

Journal reference: American Journal of Epidemiology (vol 159, p 277)

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