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Interphone Study
Interphone is a large international study designed to determine whether cell phones increase the risk of head and neck cancer.
A report published in the International Journal of Epidemiology (June, 2010) compared cell phone usage for more than 5,000
people with brain tumors (glioma and meningioma) and a similar number of healthy controls.
Results of this study did NOT show that cell phones caused brain cancer. In this study, most people had no increased risk of
brain cancer from using cell phones. For people with the heaviest use of cell phones (an average of more than ½ hour per
day, every day, for over 10 years) the study suggested a slight increase in brain cancer. However, the authors determined that
biases and errors prevented any conclusions being drawn from this data. Additional information about Interphone can be
found at www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2010/pdfs/pr200_E.pdf.
Interphone is the largest cell phone study to date, but it did not answer all questions about cell phone safety. Additional
research is being conducted around the world, and the FDA continues to monitor developments in this field.
International Cohort Study on Mobile Phone Users (COSMOS)
The COSMOS study aims to conduct long-term health monitoring of a large group of people to determine if there are any
health issues linked to long-term exposure to radio frequency energy from cell phone use. The COSMOS study will follow
approximately 300,000 adult cell phone users in Europe for 20 to 30 years. Additional information about the COSMOS study
can be found at www.ukcosmos.org/index.html.
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