The experts: Don't panic, it's only cancer

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3480056,00.html

The study is now presented with no celullar funding (suddenly omitted this detail and included only the other sources)

and a line of experts are saying what they think:

Professor Eyal Penig, director of the department of radiotherpay in the cancer center in Belinson hospital, "prefers

not to get excited of the results:during the years many studies were done on the link between electromagnetic radiation

and cancer but no causal link has been proven as was proven for ionizing radiation and brain tumors. Today according to the knowledge we have, there is no direct link between cellular and the increased incidence of cancer. The impression is that this is a coincidence, especially with salivary gland tumors which are at very low incidence in Israel. I will not stop using my cellular and in any case there is a need to check the results. Of course one cannot make a serious change in lifestyle according to only one study".   

Doctor Micha Bar Hana, director of cancer registry at the health ministry: the incidence of salivary gland cancer in israel is very low, we are talking about maximum dozen cases a year, most tumors are benign, I don't think there's a reason to be worried, in studies done until today that linked between cancer and tumors, the only link was found to acoustic neuroma which is only benign". 

Dr. Eviatar Efraim, head of department of nose ear and throat in Asaf Harofe hospital would cease using the cellular but not for health reasons: "until today there was not proven a link between cancerous tumors and cell phone use. Of course we will have to check the results of the current study. I would stop using the cellular but for other reasons, its use became disturbing and the relation to the cell phone is as something we can't live without"

Parliament member and M.D Arie Eldad: "like people hurry to by optimistic and every week find a new drug for cancer,  one must not be pessimistic and think that a carcinogenic cause was found. The medical papers should be read very carefully, professional reading and not popolistic, taking into consideration the journal where the paper was published, and the peer review. Results of one study don't cause a total change in lifestyle, but it will drag other studies. Only accumulation of this knowledge will bring a change, if any. Meanwhile I will not stop using the cellular.

Parliament member Ofir Pines, who led the regulations of radiation: The cellular companies need to apologize in front of the public after the denial they are involved in for more than a decade, about the health danger from the radiation of the cell phone. The committee of Env will make an urgent discussion to protect public health.  

Prof Eliezer Robinson, the chairman of the israeli cancer society is not surprised of the results: there were hints in the past that the cellular can be carcinogenic but there was not found a definite evidence for this. We published 2 years ago recommendations for precaution. There are still not enough cases for significance, there is not need to panic but also not to downplay it, we will have to check the data carefully.