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Cell Phones and Brain Tumors

Researchers and physicians continue to debate a possible link between cell phone use and brain tumors. Below are the latest resources, including news articles, fact sheets and scientific studies, on the topic.

News articles and fact sheets:

Cell Phones Are More Annoying Than They Are Dangerous

What to do with the Epidemiology, Cell Phons and Brain Cancer?

New Research: DNA Impacts from Mobile Phones Implicated in New Analysis

Health Canada Admits Studies on Cell Phones Convincing Enough to Promote Limited Use

The Million Dollar Question: What's the Risk of Brain Cancer from Cell Phone Radiation?

Pong Research Corporation Introduces New Cellphone and iPad Cases to Protect Against Potientally Harmful Wireless Device Radiation

Mobiles "Don't Increase Brain Cancer Risk"

The Cell Phones and the Brain... Should You Be Worried?

How the Telecom Industry Seeks To Confuse About the Danger of Cell Phones

Cell Phone Radiation Likely Not A Threat In Moderation, Students Keep Texting Unphased

Mobile Phones Could Be A "Health Time Bomb": More Than 200 Academic Studies Link Use With Serious Illness

No Possible Link Between Cell Phone and Cancer: COAI

The Truth About Cancer Risk and Cell Phone Use

Use of Mobile Phones and Risk of Brain Tumors: Update of Danish Cohort Study

Study Debunks Link Between Use of Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors

Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors? Debate Rages

Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: No Link, But is Study Flawed?

No Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Tumors

World Health Organization Says Cell Phones May be Carcinogenic

Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

Study Ties Cell Phones to Brain Activity Changes

Cell Phones Not Linked to Brain Tumors

Should You be Snuggling With Your Cell Phone?

Cutting Cell Phone Radiation

New Book Looks at Cell Phone-Brain Tumor Link

The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation

WHO News Release on Interphone Study

FDA: No Evidence Linking Cell Phone Use to Brain Tumors

NY Times: Questions About Brain Tumors and Cell Phones

Harpers Magazine: For Whom the Cell Tolls - Why your phone may (or may not) be killing you

Cell Phones: "Not Exactly a Ringing Endorsement"

Four Country Study Does Not Find Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Tumors

WHO Says Long-Term Cell Phone Use May Increase Brain Tumor Risk

Fact or Fiction?: Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer

NCI: Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: What We Know (and Don't Know)

The National Cancer Institute – Q&A on Cell Phones and Cancer

Research studies: 
February 2011 JAMA: Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism (abstract)

November 2010 Neuro-oncology: No Link Between US Cell Phone Use and Brain Tumors

WHO Interphone Study on Brain Tumors and Cell Phones


Dreyfuss, Mixed Results on Link Between Cellular Telephones and Cancer


Hardell and Carlberg, “Mobile phones, cordless phones and the risk for brain tumours”

 

Takebayashi and Varsier, “Mobile phone use, exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic field, and brain tumour: a case–control study”  


Hocking, “Letter to the Editor on the Japanese Cell Phone Study”

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