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Association fights view that cell phones cause brain cancer

CTIA yanked its annual trade show from San Francisco after city passed ordinance requiring disclosure of radiation levels. trade group is once again defending members against charges that cell phones are linked to brain cancer, less than a year after pulling its annual trade show from San Francisco when the city passed an ordinance based on the concern. In a May 31 statement, CTIA-The Wireless Association took issue with the recent classification of cell phone transmissions as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. A working group of 31 scientists from 14 countries recommended the label after… Read More