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Health and Safety
Health and Safety 153
Interphone Study
Interphone is a large international study designed to determine whether cell
phones increase the risk of head and neck cancer. A report published in the
International Journal of Epidemiology (June, 2010) compared cell phone usage
for more than 5,000 people with brain tumors (glioma and meningioma) and a
similar number of healthy controls.
Results of this study did NOT show that cell phones caused brain cancer. In this
study, most people had no increased risk of brain cancer from using cell phones.
For people with the heaviest use of cell phones (an average of more than ½ hour
per day, every day, for over 10 years) the study suggested a slight increase in
brain cancer. However, the authors determined that biases and errors prevented
any conclusions being drawn from this data. Additional information about
Interphone can be found at
www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2010/pdfs/pr200_E.pdf.
Interphone is the largest cell phone study to date, but it did not answer all
questions about cell phone safety. Additional research is being conducted
around the world, and the FDA continues to monitor developments in this eld.
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