February 4, 2008

Mobile phones, coffee found unlikely to cause cancer

Drinking coffee, using mobile phones or having breast implants is unlikely to cause cancer, according to a risk ranking system devised by an Australian cancer specialist to debunk popular myths. [via Reuters]

"The five-point system created by University of New South Wales Professor Bernard Stewart lists the risk of cancer from proven and likely, to inferred, unknown or unlikely.

... Stewart's research was published in the latest edition of the Mutation Research Reviews journal to mark world cancer day on Monday."