Largent also pointed out the commentary from a U.S. National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute bulletin. In that bulletin, the NCI states emphatically that the risks of cancer -- are not supported by a growing body of research on the subject.

The bulletin states that the dozen studies that have explored the relationship between the use of cell phones and malignant or benign brain tumors have found little or no overall increased risk of brain tumors within the first 10 years of use. Advisors to the NCI say that they are still not seeing convincing evidence of an increased brain cancer risk. Still unanswered, the NCI says, is how cell phones might contribute to cancer. "While exposure to high levels of radio frequency energy can heat body tissues," the website says, "the amount of radiofrequency energy produced by cell phones is too low to cause significant heating of tissue."


Center for Environmental Oncology's website: http://www.environmentaloncology.org/node/201
NCI Bulletin: http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/NCI_Cancer_Bulletin_092308/page7
House Committee website: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=2199

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