Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

Re:Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study by Houshalter on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:32AM (#11785272)

Perhaps, but how, in 2016, is it not known? Surely scientists have tried raising rats near strong radio waves to see if they die or get cancer?

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Re:Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study by DanBC on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:46AM (#11785328)

Rats get cancer. The rats used in this study get tumours.

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/33/11/2768

> A spontaneous tumor incidence of 45% was noted in 360 Sprague-Dawley rats (179 males and 181 females) and a 26% incidence was seen in 254 Swiss mice (101 males and 153 females) used as untreated control animals in an 18-month series of carcinogenesis experiments.

A tiny increase in cancer over a large base rate is going to be tricky to find.

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