Senator Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer could have been prevented if
he had not used his cell phone so much. At least that is the
argument being raised by health advocates who released a new
study that concludes that too much cell phone use could lead to
brain cancer... The study, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors 15
Reasons for Concern” was released by the International EMF
Collaborative this week to counter another study funded by cell
phone industry giants (The Interphone study), which minimizes
the risk of cell phone use. The International EMF Collaborative
claims that the Interphone study, which begun in 1999, was
“intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full
publication has been held up for years. Components of this study
published to date reveal what the authors call a ’systemic-
skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.” The EMF
Collaborative’s study is not the first to show that cell phones
can increase the risk of brain cancer. The Dutch Health Council
in Sweden released a similar repor