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population at a rate of about 6 new cases per 100,000 people 
each year. At that rate, assuming 80 million users of mobile 
phones (a number increasing at a rate of about 1 million per 
month), about 4800 cases of brain cancer would be expected 
each year among those 80 million people, whether or not they 
used their phones. Thus it is not possible to tell whether any 
individual's cancer arose because of the phone, or whether it 
would have happened anyway. A key question is whether the 
risk of getting a particular form of cancer is greater among 
people who use mobile phones than among the rest of the 
population. One way to answer that question is to compare the 
usage of mobile phones among people with brain cancer with 
the use of mobile phones among appropriately matched people 
without brain cancer. This is called a case-control study. The 
current case-control study of brain cancers by the National 
Cancer Institute, as well as the follow-up research to be 
sponsored by industry, will begin to generate this type of 
information.

What is FDA's role concerning the safety of mobile 
phones?

Under the law, FDA does not review the safety of radiation-
emitting consumer products such as mobile phones before 
marketing, as it does with new drugs or medical devices. 
However, the agency has authority to take action if mobile 
phones are shown to emit radiation at a level that is hazardous 
to the user. In such a case, FDA could require the manufacturers 
of mobile phones to notify users of the health hazard and to 
repair, replace or recall the phones so that the hazard no longer 
exists.