No link to child cancer from phone masts, finds British study
Posted in: Mobile & Wireless at 23/06/2010 19:21
Pregnant women who live close to mobile phone masts do not need to move house, scientists said today, following the publication of a study which found no link to early childhood cancers.
There has been public concern over the possibility that living near phone masts could raise the cancer risk of small children and clusters of cases around masts have been reported. But a study published in the British Medical Journal - the first to examine possible links between phone masts and childhood cancer across Britain - found no cause for concern.
To read this report in The Guardian in full, see:
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jun/23/phone-masts-cancer-children-link
Also see:
Large study finds no cell phone mast link to cancer
British scientists who conducted the largest study yet into cell phone masts and childhood cancers say that living close to a mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman's baby developing cancer.
In a study looking at almost 7,000 children and patterns of early childhood cancers across Britain, the researchers found that those who developed cancer before the age of five were no more likely to have been born close to a mast than their peers.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49553020100623
