Mobile phones don�t cause brain cancer

It may not be a technology innovation, but with millions of people in the U.S. using cellular technology there might not be better news than that reported by a Wisconsin oncology professor.

John Molder, a professor of radiation oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, reports that extensive studies had shown there was no evidence of a link between mobile phone use and brain cancer, but that there were always more studies to be done.

Swedish researchers have said mobile phone users could be two and a half times more likely to develop brain cancer than those who do not, but Molder said he had studied their research and found the numbers had no statistical significance.

The evidence of brain tumors in mobile phone users was in a tiny sub-group of about five people.

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