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Experts revive debate over cell phones and cancer
From: New York Times06/02/08 |
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| Last week, three
prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry
King that they did not hold cellphones next to their
ears. I think the safe practice, said Dr. Keith Black, a
surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,
is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna
away from your brain. Dr. Vini Khurana, an associate
professor of neurosurgery at the Australian National
University who is an outspoken critic of cellphones,
said: I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I do not hold
it to my ear. And CNNs chief medical correspondent, Dr.
Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon at Emory University
Hospital, said that like Dr. Black he used an earpiece.
Along with Senator Edward M. Kennedys recent diagnosis
of a glioma, a type of tumor that critics have long
associated with cellphone use, the doctors remarks have
helped reignite a long-simmering debate about cellphones
and cancer. |
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