What Everyone Should Know About Cell Phones
5 Dec
“Gentlemen, practise these words in front of the mirror: Although we are constantly exploring the subject, currently there is no direct evidence that links cellphone usage to brain cancer.”
- the character Nick Naylor in the film Thank You for Smoking
Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Well, from the latest headlines reporting the preliminary results of a recent Danish Cancer Society study you would conclude the answer is ‘no.’ However, even the authors of the study themselves conclude, “Because of the high prevalence of mobile phone exposure in this population and worldwide, longer follow-up of time trends in brain tumor incidence rates are warranted.” In other words, scientists are still not sure.
