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The latest study linking mobile phones to cancer has more big problems.

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Experts refute U.S. Govt. study finding linking cancer to cell phone use!! You may have seen the recent headlines reporting on a new study that's supposedly found a link between   mobile phones and cancer .  But all is not quite as it seems. And much of the alarm raised by the study is misplaced. First, a bit of background. The study was set up by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) in response to concerns about the potential health effects of radiofrequency (RF) emissions from mobile telecommunications devices. It was set to determine whether chronic RF exposure caused cancer in mice and rats. This was a large, well-funded study, and as such has been eagerly awaited by RF health scientists and policy makers alike. The issue of whether RF emissions can cause cancer has been hotly debated, and the evidence to date has been unable to settle the matter conclusively. The report concludes that: […] the observed hyperplastic legions and glial cell neoplasms [cancer] o