Mobile phone use 'not linked to brain tumours'
A new study has found no increase in the incidence of brain tumours during the years immediately following the introduction of mobile phones in Nordic countries.
Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen analysed the annual incidence rates of two of the most common types of brain cancer - glioma and meningioma - among over-20s in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
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4. 12. 2009 Cancer Research UK
