Les telephones mobiles

Rapport Stewart (mai 2000)

One investigation has examined mortality among customers of a large mobile phone operator in the USA (…). It covered some 250,000 phone users, who were followed for one year (…). Numbers of brain tumor and leukemia deaths were small and showed no substantial indication of increasing risk with number of minutes of hand-held phone use per day, or with years of hand-held phone use (Dreyer et al 1999). No data were reported on whether phones were analog or digital signals (…). Also, any increase in diseases such as cancer may not be manifest until many years after people are first exposed to a hazard. Therefore, although no significant differences in mortality were demonstrated between the two exposure groups, the conclusions that can be drawn from this report are limited, and it does not rule out important effects.