Les telephones mobiles

Article de synthèse Carlo (31 juillet 2000)

(…).This finding [from a study by Muscat and coworkers , NDLR] of laterality was consistent with the observations of Hardell who, in a case control study conducted in Sweden, observed that tumors were more frequently found on the side of the head where the phone was used.

2- A propos de l’article Dreyer NA, Loughlin JE, Rothman KJ. Cause-specific mortality in cellular telephone users. JAMA, 1999, 282:1814
Article de synthèse G Carlo (31 juillet 2000)

Dreyer and colleagues (manuscript in preparation) completed the largest cohort study to date of analog cellular phone users and found an increase in the rate of brain cancer mortality in hand-held phone users (near field exposures) as compared with car phone users with the antenna on the rear window (far field exposures). The rate of brain cancer death was more than 3 times greater in the hand-held phone group compared with the far field control group; however, since the total number of persons in this group was small and the follow-up period was short (1 year), the difference was not statistically significant.