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Cellphone towers no threat to unborn babies: study

Children whose mothers lived close to a mobile phone tower while pregnant did not appear to be at any higher risk of cancer than children whose mothers lived farther away, a new study finds.

LONDON — Children whose mothers lived close to a mobile phone tower while pregnant did not appear to be at any higher risk of cancer than children whose mothers lived farther away, a new study finds.

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

Using a national birth registry, they identified 5,588 similar children without cancer.