DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: There is a new study out that says it has found no link between cell phones and brain cancer. But the study is not the final word. CNN Financial News correspondent Steve Young has that story.</s>STEVE YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A statistical study published by the prestigious "Journal of the American Medical Association" is good news for equipment makers, service providers, and maybe for cell phone users, too.</s>JOSHUA MUSCAT, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Regardless of how often cell phones are used on a monthly basis, or for how many years, the probability of developing a brain tumor was unrelated to using cell phones.</s>YOUNG: The average brain tumor patient studied owned a cell phone for less than three years and was on it for only 2.5 hours each month. But Sprint PCS says its average customer is on a cell phone nearly three times longer.</s>LOUIS SLESIN, EDITOR, "MICROWAVE NEWS": The people in the study did not use phones for very long, and so we really don't know what the long-term risks may be.</s>YOUNG: In addition, three-fourths of the phones in the study were the old-fashioned analog kind. Even the industry sponsor says this first major U.S. cell phone health study is just a start.</s>JO-ANNE BASILE, CELLULAR TELECOM. INDUSTRY ASSN.: It's a call for more research. It is a call that the industry absolutely supports. We support it both here in the U.S., as well as throughout the rest of the world.</s>YOUNG (on camera): Some experts say the study has limited value because it focuses on yesterday's usage patterns and yesterday's cell phones. Steve Young, CNN Financial News, New York.
Study Finding No Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Cancer Not the Final Word