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100,000 people each year. At that rate, assuming 80 million users of

mobile phones (a number increasing at a rate of about 1 million per

month), about 4800 cases of brain cancer would be expected each year

among those 80 million people, whether or not they used their phones.

Thus it is not possible to tell whether any individual's cancer arose

because of the phone, or whether it would have happened anyway. A key

question is whether the risk of getting a particular form of cancer is

greater among people who use mobile phones than among the rest of the

population. One way to answer that question is to compare the usage of

mobile phones among people with brain cancer with the use of mobile

phones among appropriately matched people without brain cancer. This

is called a case-control study. The current case-control study of brain

cancers by the National Cancer Institute, as well as the follow-up research

to be sponsored by industry, will begin to generate this type of

information.

What is FDA's role concerning the safety of

mobile phones?

Under the law, FDA does not review the safety of radiation-emitting

consumer products such as mobile phones before marketing, as it does

with new drugs or medical devices. However, the agency has authority to

take action if mobile phones are shown to emit radiation at a level that is

hazardous to the user. In such a case, FDA could require the

manufacturers of mobile phones to notify users of the health hazard and

to repair, replace or recall the phones so that the hazard no longer exists.

Although the existing scientific data do not justify FDA regulatory actions

at this time, FDA has urged the mobile phone industry to take a number of

steps to assure public safety. The agency has recommended that the

industry:

•

support needed research into possible biological effects of RF of the

type emitted by mobile phones

•

design mobile phones in a way that minimizes any RF exposure to

the user that is not necessary for device function

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