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Results of Cell Phone Cancer Study Inconclusive

Posted May 18, 2010 11:44 AM

From CNET News.com:

After spending 10 years and $24 million to see whether cell phone use leads to brain cancer, the World Health Organization has reached a verdict: it's not quite sure. In a decade-long survey of nearly 13,000 people across 13 countries, the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) determined that most cell phone use did not lead to an increased risk of either meningioma, a common but typically benign form of cancer, or glioma, a rare but more dangerous type of brain cancer.

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Re: Results of Cell Phone Cancer Study Inconclusive

05/18/2010 12:22 PM

Journalist's follow-up calls to WHO's IARC were not returned.

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