Radio-frequency radiation safety and health: Mobile-phone radiation effects on cancers in mice

An upbeat television interview, given by authors of a paper reporting the results of an Australian study, on the occasion of its publication [1] in the September, 2002, issue of the journal Radiation Research, proclaimed that long-term exposure to the microwave radiation (900 MHz) from Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) phones is safe. Moreover, the paper's authors asserted their findings as countering a previous Australian study [2], which reported an increased incidence of lymphomas in mice of the same transgenic strain and from the same supplier as those used in their experiment.