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Danes debunk cell phone fears
By Larry Hendrick | December 6, 2006
It looks like we can all relax, at least for the next ten years or so. This massive study finds no link between cellular telephones and cancer. Although it looks at data for over twenty years, they continue to monitor the study.
Of course, this doesn’t mean you can get behind the wheel, in front of me, and talk on the phone. Pay attention and stay focused because I’m talking and can’t watch for both of us.
globeandmail.com: Danes debunks cell phone fears
WASHINGTON — A huge study from Denmark offers the latest reassurance that cell phones don’t trigger cancer.
Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had gabbed on the gadgets for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago.
They matched phone records to the famed Danish Cancer Registry that records every citizen who gets the disease — and reported Tuesday that cell-phone callers are no more likely than anyone else to suffer a range of cancer types.
The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is the largest yet to find no bad news about the safety of cell phones and the radiofrequency energy they emit.
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