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LONDON — Children whose mothers lived close to mobile-phone towers while pregnant did not appear to be at any higher risk of cancer than when mothers lived farther away, a study has found.
British researchers analyzed 1,397 cancer cases in children up to age 4 from 1999 to 2001 in the United Kingdom. Using a national birth registry, they identified 5,588 similar children without cancer.
Next, they compared how far mothers lived from a cellphone tower and the stations’ signal strengths. No significant differences were seen.
The research was published online today in the medical journal BMJ.
