專家研究不停有 手機究竟致癌嗎？

If you haven't already gotten whiplashfrom the ongoing cellphone-cancer debate, a freshly released scientific review might just do the trick.
手機的電磁波到底會不會致癌？這個問題科學界多年來一直整理不出個答案來。不過，最近，一項新的研究結果可能會使答案變得明朗一些。

In the paper, a panelof experts from Britain, Sweden and the US conducted a thorough survey of previous studies, before concluding that existing literature is "increasingly against" the theory that cellphone use causes brain tumors in adults.
一篇來自英國、瑞典、美國的專家的研究中，發現現有的文獻已經逐步傾向於手機“不會”對成年人致癌。

The researchers also questioned the biological mechanisms underpinningthis hypothesis, while acknowledgingsome lingeringuncertainties, since data on childhood tumors and longer-term research are still lacking.
同時，專家們也對手機電磁波致癌假說背後的生物機制存疑。他們表示目前在手機對兒童的影響這方面資料不足，而且手機這種產品畢竟普級的時間還不長，因此缺乏長時間累積的數據。

The results come just a few weeks after the World Health Organization released its own literature review, in which it claimed that cell phones should be considered "potentially carcinogenic." But Anthony Swerdlow, a professor at Britain's Institute of Cancer Research and leader of the most recent investigation, said his group's work doesn't necessarily contradictthe WHO, since the latter was simply seeking to evaluatecancer risks according to its own "pre-set classificationsystem" -- under which things like pickled vegetables and coffee are also considered "potentially carcinogenic."
但就在數週前，世界衛生組織（WHO）纔將手機定爲有潛在的致癌性（potentially carcinogenic）。英國一家癌症研究機構的專家 Antony Swerdlow 則認爲，專家們的研究結果與WHO的設定並沒有衝突，因爲 WHO 有自已的一套判定方式，在 WHO 看來，酸菜和咖啡也同樣是“有潛在的致癌性”的。

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the debate will die down anytime soon, though Swerdlow expects more definitive conclusions within the next few years -- assuming, of course, that all of our brains haven't turned to oatmealby then.
悲劇的是，這並不代表“手機是否致癌”的爭論會馬上結束。Swerdlow期待更多準確的有關手機是否致癌的數據——事實上全世界正在用手機的人都是白老鼠 ：只要過大約過了幾十年，再回頭來分析使用手機的人的腦癌發病率，數據應該就準確了。