Research from University Hospital, Department of Oncology broadens understanding of brain cancer.(Obituary)

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Mobile phone use and the risk for malignant brain tumors: a case-control study on deceased cases and controls.' "We investigated the use of mobile or cordless phones and the risk for malignant brain tumors in a group of deceased cases. Most previous studies have either left out deceased cases of brain tumors or matched them to living controls and therefore a study matching deceased cases to deceased controls is warranted," investigators in Sweden report (see also Brain Cancer).

"Recall error is one issue since it has been claimed that increased risks reported in some studies could be due to cases blaming mobile phones as a cause of …