International project studies cellular telephone cancer risks

Results in two years

(Helsinki 10.06.2002 - Juhani Artto) People in Finland are keenly interested in any news about the possible cancer risks arising from the use of cellular telephones. The country's high mobile phone density is not the only important factor explaining this interest. Nokia, the mobile phone world leader, has about 25,000 employees and its headquarters in Finland. This enterprise plays a major positive role in the Finnish economy and in the lives of thousands of families and several municipalities.

This means that the Finns get alarmed whenever news breaks of a possible link between cellular phones and cancer or other illnesses. At the end April a group of Finnish researchers published a new study on this issue. No connection was found between mobile phone use and brain tumours or salivary gland cancers. Three previous studies conducted in other countries reached the same conclusion. However, a fourth foreign study had slightly different findings, leaving the door open for other ideas.

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