RE: “LONG-TERM MOBILE PHONE USE AND BRAIN TUMOR RISK” | Zendy

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RE: “LONG-TERM MOBILE PHONE USE AND BRAIN TUMOR RISK”

Author(s) -

Samuel Milham

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

american journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33

H-Index - 256

eISSN - 1476-6256

pISSN - 0002-9262

DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwi244

Subject(s) - term (time) , mobile phone , medicine , environmental health , computer science , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics

The recently published study by Lönn et al. (1) is flawed in many ways. In a broad overview, too few cases were included to enable the authors to find an increased risk for a reasonable latency time at the brain location where a cell phone’s radiation plume exists. Furthermore, there are direct contradictions between the text of the paper and the data as reported in the tables. In essence, the data show an increased risk, whereas the text says that there is no increased risk. Among the flaws of this study are the following:

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