THT did an article about the potential of cell phones causing brain cancer. ( http://blogs.biproinc.com/healthcare/?p=22 )

It is a fact that there is radiation which is a form of energy.  The question is how damaging is this energy?  A recent study seems to suggest that the fear may be overblown but it does not rule out either.

A study conducted in Europe has found no credible link between brain tumor and the use of cell phones. The study among Scandinavian people from 1974 and 2003 has found that the use of cell phones did not increase brain tumour risk among users.

“We did not observe an effect of mobile phones on the incidence of brain tumours,” study leader Isabelle Deltour of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen told a Canadian television network.

As part of this extensive study, 16 million people in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were tracked for what happened to rates of glioma and meningioma brain tumours among them over 30 years.

But the researchers found that only 60,000 of them developed brain tumours. This rate of brain tumour was not higher than that seen before the use of cell phones began.

The study found that either there was no increase in risk. Or, if there was any increase in risk, it was too small to be observed or the period needed for cell phones to cause brain tumours was longer than the period studied.

The Scandinavian study commenced just when cell phones were introduced.

“If there was a connection, we would have expected a sudden marked increase in the rates, especially among younger males, which were the first to use cells phones. We didn’t see that,” Ms. Deltour said.

Another international study on the link between cell phone use and brain cancer is likely to come out next year. The Scandinavian study has appeared in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.