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Interphone Study
Interphone is a large international study
designed to determine whether cell phones
increase the risk of head and neck cancer. A
report published in the International Journal
of Epidemiology (June, 2010) compared cell
phone usage for more than 5,000 people
with brain tumors (glioma and meningioma)
and a similar number of healthy controls.
Results of this study did NOT show that cell
phones caused brain cancer. In this study,
most people had no increased risk of brain
cancer from using cell phones. For people
with the heaviest use of cell phones (an
average of more than ½ hour per day, every
day, for over 10 years) the study suggested a
slight increase in brain cancer. However, the
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