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Cell Phone Cancer Study Inconclusive
(MSNC – 2010)
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We have an update this evening on a health question that has been around and has haunted a lot of
people for years: does using cell phones increase the risk of brain cancer? The problem is the results of
this new study don’t solve the debate. For some people they may even make it more confusing.
Our report from our chief science correspondent Robert Bazel.
It’s been a nagging worry since the invention of the cell phone. Could the device’s radiation so close to
the head cause brain tumors?
I don’t think it could be good for you to have that beaming through you all day long every day.
Even more for parents.
Their brains are still maturing, you know at that age, so of course it is a concern.
The international study cost twenty-four million dollars. A quarter paid by the cell phone industry.
It followed thirteen thousand people in thirteen countries for a decade. It provides some answers but
certainly no closure.
So far, overall, the science does not show a raise risk of brain tumors in relation to mobile phone use.
And there were some quirky results. Overall, people who use cell phones had fewer tumors, although the
heaviest users have more. The scientists say these are both statistical flukes.
To add to the confusion, cell phone technology is constantly evolving. Nowadays more people are
talking hands free, or using their cell phones for texting.
And showing safety after ten years does not end the concern.
What about twenty years? What about thirty years? What about use of cell phones in children? These
are questions that we still need to investigate.
Doctor David McCormick and other scientists around the world are trying to find how cell phone
radiation might cause cancer.
People are looking hard to try and identify such a mechanism and to this point in time have not identified
one. But he plans to keep looking. It is impossible to prove anything is completely safe. But scientists
agree it is important to keep looking for any signs of danger.
Robert Bazel, NBC News, New York
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Vocabulary
01. inconclusive
peu concluant, probant
02. for years
pendant des années
03. a nagging worry
une préoccupation / souci persistant
04. beaming through you
qui vous traverse
05. all day long
toute la journée
06. a concern
une préoccupation / souci
07. it provides no closure
il ne fournit pas de conclusion
08. so far
jusqu’à présent
09. overall
de façon générale, globalement
10. a raise risk
une augmentation du facteur de risque
11. quirky results
des résultats bizarres, inattendus
12. statistical flukes
un coup de chance
13. nowadays
de nos jours
14. hands free
mains libres
15. to look hard
étudier de près
16. to try and identify
pour essayer d’identifier: un meilleur anglais
serait « to try to identify. »
17. to this point in time
à nos jours, jusqu’ici