Mobile phones and cancer: AT & T wants more studies

Written by Sandeep Nehra

The risk of cancer linked to mobile phones, raised by experts of the World Health Organization (WHO), is a “serious matter” that should be further investigated, an official said on Thursday the U.S. operator AT & T.

“The industry should not have to worry too much,” said the head of mobile at AT & T’s Ralph de la Vega, noting that the conclusions of these experts released Tuesday based on a study a year old.

“However, we should continue to study” the issue, he said the last day of the conference organized by the D9 news website All Things Digital in Rancho Palos Verdes, California (west).

“This is serious,” he said.

International experts gathered at the initiative of WHO, said Tuesday that the use of mobile phones could cause cancer, advocating the use of hands free kits and practice of SMS.

The same day, the U.S. trade association CTIA-The Wireless pointed out that the classification of “possibly carcinogenic to humans” does not mean “that cell phones cause cancer.”

The Agency for Research on Cancer of WHO, which published these results, “in the past, scored in the same category pickled vegetables and coffee,” stressed the association.

According to professionals, “limited evidence from statistical studies can be found, although the results can only be the product of biases and errors.”

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