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“There’s nothing in my practice or in conversations with the brain surgeons I interact with to suggest an increase in brain cancers at the same time there’s been an explosion of cellphone use,” said Dr. Anthony L. D’Ambrosio, director of the Neuro-Oncology Disease Management Team at the Institute for Brain and Spine Radiosurgery at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.

Cellphones are ‘possibly carcinogenic,’ World Health Organization says

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY MAY 31, 2011, 6:59 PM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

A respected international panel of experts says cellphones can possibly cause cancer, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee.

Classifying agents as “possibly carcinogenic” doesn’t mean they automatically cause cancer, and some experts said the ruling shouldn’t change people’s cellphone habits.

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