Anthony Swerdlow

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Anthony J. Swerdlow is a British epidemiologist and head of the epidemiology section at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, London, England.[1][2]

Education and career[edit]

Swerdlow trained at Cambridge University and Oxford University, and worked at the University of Glasgow’s Department of Community Medicine and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys early in his career. In 1987, he began working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he remained until joining the Institute of Cancer Research in 2000.[1]

Research[edit]

Swerdlow has worked on a number of studies relating to the purported link between mobile phone use and cancer, including the Interphone Study.[3][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Professor Anthony Swerdlow". Institute of Cancer Research. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  2. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (10 August 2014). "'A new approach will save my girls going through the ordeal of breast cancer'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  3. ^ Cressey, Daniel (17 May 2010). "No link found between mobile phones and cancer". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.246. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  4. ^ Hirschler, Ben (4 July 2011). "Evidence "increasingly against" phone cancer risk". Reuters. Retrieved 22 September 2015.