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

Lloyd Morgan

2202 Francisco Street, Berkeley, CA 94709

The recently published study by Lönn et al. (1Go) 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:

Examples of direct contradictions between the text and the data reported in the tables follow:


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Conflict of interest: none declared.


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  1. Lönn S, Ahlbom A, Hall P, et al. Long-term mobile phone use and brain tumor risk. Am J Epidemiol 2005;161:526–35.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
  2. Kleiheus P, Cavanee W. Tumours of the nervous system. Lyon, France: IARC Press, 2000:10, 17, 22.