World's biggest study on cell phones and brain cancer inconclusive

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 15:01 in Psychology & Sociology

The world's biggest investigation on possible links between cell phone use and brain tumours is inconclusive, according to a Canadian scientist who collaborated on the Interphone International Study Group. Jack Siemiatycki, a professor at the University of Montreal and an epidemiologist at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, says restricted access to participants compromised the validity of results of the study to be published in the May 18 International Journal of Epidemiology. 'The findings of the Interphone Study are ambiguous, surprising and puzzling,' he says...

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