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Article: HEALTH: ; Director of cancer center warns of cell phone risks
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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PITTSBURGH - The head of a prominent cancer research institute
issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday:
Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous
studies that don't find a link between cancer and cell phone use,
and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says
it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people
should take action now - especially when it comes to children.
"Really at the heart of my concern is that we ...