Cell Phone-Cancer Link Seen in Rat Study 在小白鼠实验中发现了手机与癌症有关联

An important new study that has linked cell phone radiation to cancers in the brain and heart.

一项重要的新研究表明，手机辐射与大脑和心脏的癌症有关。

The new research was conducted on rats by the U.S. National Toxicology Program, which exposed rats to radiofrequency radiation that comes from cell phones for about nine hours a day for seven days a week. They found that the exposed rats were more likely to develop cancers, specifically malignant gliomas—a tumor of glial cells in the brain—and tumors in the heart.

这项新的研究是由美国国家毒理学项目在小白鼠身上进行的，在一周7天的实验中，小白鼠每天都会暴露在手机的高频辐射之下，时间约为9小时。他们发现这些暴露在辐射之下的小白鼠更容易得癌症，尤其是恶性胶质瘤——大脑中的胶质细胞出现的肿瘤——以及心脏部位的癌症。

The study was reviewed by experts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the authors say more research on the link will emerge in the next couple years. There are some important caveats to the new report. A study in rats is never directly translational to humans. It does, however, give researchers evidence that can lead to further research on the impact cell-phone radiation has on people. The findings were also most statistically significant for male rats.

国立卫生院的专家对这一研究做出了评价，作者称在今后的几年之内，会有更多针对手机辐射与癌症关系的研究出现。对于这项新的报告有一些重要的说明。在小白鼠身上进行的研究不能用于人类实验。然而，这项研究确实给研究这提供了证据，会激发人们进一步研究手机辐射对人类的影响。研究发现，这一数据统计明显针对于雄性小白鼠。

Other research has seen a link between cell phones and cancer, though research overall remains limited. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified cell phone use and other radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as a possible carcinogen in 2011. “This study in mice and rats is under review by additional experts,” the NIH said in a statement about the findings.

虽然整体的研究比较有限，但是其他研究也证明过手机与癌症的关系。世界卫生组织的癌症研究国际机构在2011年将手机使用与其他高频电磁场归类为可能的致癌物质。国家卫生研究所在对这些发现进行进行陈述时称“对小白鼠进行的这项研究有待于其他专家证实。”

The researchers say this new report is unlikely to be the final word on the possible risks of cell phone radiation, and more data from their research is anticipated to be released in fall 2017.

研究者称，这项新研究并不是对于手机辐射可能危险的最终判断，在2017年秋季，预计会公布这项研究更多的数据。