Cellular Telephones and Brain Cancer: Current Research

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Two prominent medical journals recently published epidemiologic studies [Inskip et al. (1) and Muscat et al. (2)] on cellular telephones and brain cancer. These papers were featured in a front-page story in The New York Times (3). The message of the story was essentially that these were definitive studies that put the question of handheld cell phone hazard to rest. The television networks and other media also ran major stories and conveyed essentially the same message.

Most of the patients and most of the data analyses in the Inskip et al. (1) paper as well as in the Muscat et al. (2) paper are irrelevant to the issue of whether handheld cellular telephones cause brain cancer. …