Distraction danger"If cellphones cause cancer, they don't cause a lot of cancer," said Dr. Otis Brawley, the American Cancer Society's chief medical officer. "I suspect that this experiment is substantially underpowered and that the few positive results found reflect false positive findings." Female rats weren't affected. The question of whether cellphone radiation is linked to tumours remains inconclusive after the partial release of a $25-million U.S study on rats. Researchers at the National Toxicology Program bombarded rats with cellphone radiation at extremely high power ranges and studied aggressive glioma brain cancer and rare, benign schwannoma growths of the heart.

Source: CBC News May 28, 2016 01:01 UTC