∞ 'Trend…against' cell phone/brain cancer link

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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently made headlines when it called cellphones “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” A new review of research from Britain, the U.S. and Sweden says there is, in fact, no evidence linking cancer and cell phone use, according to Reuters.

[ad#Google Adsense 300x250 in story]Anthony Swerdlow of Britain’s Institute of Cancer Research warned against discounting the WHO’s findings, since, as he explained, mobile phones needed to be put into “a pre-defined risk category.”

The study looked at almost 13,000 mobile phone users over 10 years and concluded that “it gave no clear answer.” Other studies produced elsewhere similarly don’t find any indication of increases in brain tumors a decade after mobile phones have gone into wide use.


  • Anonymous

    Freaking Sunlight will give you cancer. Should we all stay inside now. 

    And chances are there are more deaths from idiots not playing attention to their driving or where they are walking while on their phones than any cellphone cancer cases. Probably by magnitudes. 

    • Peter Cohen

      The WHO’s report is one of those cases where 1+1 = cheese, as my friend John C Welch likes to say. They wanted to classify the risk, and did, but some in the media ended up simplifying the story to “WHO says brain cancer risk from cell phones,” because it’s an easier headline. Even the WHO was wishy-washy on the science.