Cell Phones, Teens and Cancer: Is There a Link? | SNS Post

Published on April 6th, 2012

Story Excerpt:

(ABC) ?Scientists are calling into question a?study published last year?that failed to find a link between cell phone use and brain tumors in children and teens. They say the study actually shows that cell phone use more than doubles the risk of brain tumors in children and adolescents.

The concerns come from the Environmental Health Trust, a group whose stated mission is to promote awareness of environmental issues they believe are linked to cancer.

In July 2011, the?Journal of the National Cancer Institute published?the first study on cellphone use and risk of brain tumors in children and adolescents, which was conducted by researchers at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. The scientists interviewed children and teens in Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden about their cell phone use and also collected cell phone records for a portion of them. Of the children studied, 350 had been diagnosed with brain cancer and 650 of them were healthy.

The July paper concluded that the data showed no link between cell phone use and brain tumors and ?argues against a causal association? between the two.

In a letter published today in the journal, the Environmental Health Trust said the interpretation of the study?s results was flawed and contained several statistical errors.

Lloyd Morgan, a senior research fellow at the Environmental Health Trust and one of the authors of the letter, called the study ?sloppy? and said the data reported in the original study actually shows that children who used cell phones had a 115 percent increased risk of brain tumors over those who did not.

?There?s every indication that this study actually found that children have a doubled risk of brain cancer,? Morgan said. ?For them to just state that we don?t think there?s a problem is, for me, quite mystifying.?

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