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If you haven't already gotten whiplashfrom the ongoing cellphone-cancer debate, a freshly released scientific review might just do the trick. 手机的电磁波到底会不会致癌？这个问题科学界多年来一直整理不出个答案来。不过，最近，一项新的研究结果可能会使答案变得明朗一些。 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. 一篇来自英国、瑞典、美国的专家的研究中，发现现有的文献已经逐步倾向于手机“不会”对成年人致癌。 The researchers also questioned the biological mechanisms underpinningthis hypothesis, while acknowledgingsome lingeringuncertainties, since data on childhood tumors and longer-term research are still lacking. 同时，专家们也对手机电磁波致癌假说背后的生物机制存疑。他们表示目前在手机对儿童的影响这方面资料不足，而且手机这种产品毕竟普级的时间还不长，因此缺乏长时间累积的数据。 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." | 
