Do cell phone towers cause cancer?
There’s been a lot of concern about the possible health effects of emissions from cell phones, including possible risks of living too close to cell phone towers. That concern has been heightened by reports of cancer clusters near cell phone base stations. Well, there’s some reassuring news out about whether it’s dangerous to live near one of those cell phone bases. A new British study found that children born to mothers who lived near one of those towers when they were pregnant do not appear to be at increased risk for cancer. In a paper published in a British medical journal known as BMJ, researchers at Imperial College in London studied 1,397 British children ages zero to 4 who had been diagnosed with leukemia or a tumor in the brain or central nervous system between 1999 and 2001 and 5,588 similar children who had not been diagnosed with a cancer. The researchers found no association between the risk for cancer and whether their mothers lived near a cell phone tower or not. The rese
