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Article: Study finds no cell phone-cancer link
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 7, 2001
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WASHINGTON Scientists who tracked the health of 420,000 Danish
cell phone users found no sign the devices increase cancer risk-the
biggest study yet to provide reassurance about the phones' safety,
but one that won't end the controversy.
The study, published in today's Journal of the National Cancer
Institute, concluded cell phone users are no more likely than anyone
else to suffer brain or nervous system cancers, leukemia or salivary
gland tumors, cancer types that have worried critics.
"Every which way we looked at it, we could not find any suggestive
evidence ...