A study appearing in the online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) indicates that mobile phone use is not associated with an increased risk of melanoma of the eye. Earlier studies had examined the possibility of an association between mobile phone use and melanoma of the eye, also called uveal melanoma. In the recent study, Andreas Stang, MD of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, and his colleagues examined the association between phone use and the risk of uveal melanoma in 459 patients and 1,194 control subjects. The control subjects were drawn from the general population, from ophthalmology clinics, and from siblings of the patients. Researchers grouped study participants according to the amount of time spent on the phone—including non-users, sporadic users, and regular users. They found no statistically significant association between mobile phone use of up to ten years and the risk of developing uveal melanoma. A synopsis of the article can be found on the JNCI website; the original paper is online as well. Questions on SAR testing can be posted to the Interference Technology NEBS/Telecom Forum.
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