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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(3):166-167; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.3.166
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 3, 166-167, February 7, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

EDITORIAL

Cellular Telephones and Cancer: How Should Science Respond?

Robert L. Park

Affiliations of author: Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, and American Physical Society, Washington, DC.

Correspondence to: Robert L. Park, Ph.D., American Physical Society, National Press Bldg., Suite 1050, Washington, DC 20045 (e-mail: bob@aps.org).

The first exposure of most people to new scientific or medical findings is through the media, particularly television. The media stories that should inform the public, however, have usually been selected more for entertainment value than for news content.

Most people first heard about a possible cell phone/cancer connection when David Raynard, whose wife had died of brain cancer, was a guest on the television show Larry King Live. Raynard was suing the cell phone industry, insisting that his wife's cancer had been caused by a cell phone. "She held it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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