Cellphones: To complete own study before final view, says ICMR

ICMR will analyse the details of WHO study indicating heavy use of mobile phones could possible cause brain cancer.

PTI | June 2, 2011



With WHO indicating that heavy use of mobile phones could possibly cause brain cancer, the ICMR on Thursday said it will analyse the details of that research along with the ongoing work on its own independent study, the results of which may come out next year.

"We will look into all the details of the WHO study to find out the data on the basis of which they have brought out these results. We will conduct an analysis of that," Indian Council for Medical Research Director General V M Katoch said.

"The ICMR is also conducting its own independent research on this. We will then take a holistic view. It will be wrong to come at a conclusion now. Before taking a final view, we will study further," he told PTI.

Katoch said the results of ICMR's study on the effects of use of mobile phones are expected to come next year. The research was launched in May last year.

Heavy use of cellphones and other wireless communication devices could possibly cause cancer, the World Health Organisation had said on Monday. The electromagnetic fields generated by such devices are "possibly carcinogenic to humans," the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) had said.

The IARC, which is part of the WHO, had however cautioned that current scientific evidence showed only a possible link, not a proven one, between wireless devices and cancers.

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