Children who live close to a mobile phone tower don’t appear to be at any higher risk of cancer than those who don’t live in the neighborhood, a new study says.

British researchers analyzed all 1,397 cancer cases in children up to age 4 from 1999 to 2001 in the United Kingdom.

They compared those children to 5,588 similar children who didn’t get cancer. Next, they looked at how close the children lived to a mobile phone base station when they were born, as well as the expected amount of power produced by the closest tower.

Children who got cancer were living about 1107 meters (1211 yards) away from a mobile phone tower, whereas the children who didn’t get cancer were living about 1,073 meters (1174 yards) away. For children who got cancer, researchers estimated the nearest cell phone towers were emitting about 2.89 kilowatts of power, versus about 3 kilowatts from the towers close to kids who didn’t get sick. [Read more...]