A study studies mobile phone/cancer studies

Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, vary widely in quality and there may be some bias in those showing the least risk, researchers reported, according to stuff.

Dr. Seung-Kwon Myung of South Korea's National Cancer Center and colleagues at Ewha Womans University and Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul and the University of California, Berkeley, examined 23 published studies of more than 37,000 people in what is called a meta-analysis.

They found results often depended on who conducted the study and how well they controlled for bias and other errors.

"We found a large discrepancy in the association between mobile phone use and tumor risk by research group, which is confounded with the methodological quality of the research," they wrote in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

So where does this new information leave us? In the exact same spot, we still don't know for sure what the incidence of cell phones have on causing cancer.

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emily | 12:22 PM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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