A judge in Italy has again raised the spectre of cellphones causing cancer, ruling that a man in that country suffered a brain carcinoma due to his years of incessantly using mobiles.

Statistics supplied by the B.C. Cancer Agency, however, could be seen to contradict the cellphone-cancer connection.

As the CBC’s Kirk Williams reports, the numbers say incidence of brain cancer has not increased, despite the massive proliferation of cellphone use.