Phones are NOT linked to giving your cancer, major new international study of 250,000 mobile users says
Long-term cell phone use is not linked to an increased risk of developing brain cancer, according to a major international study.
Researchers followed 250,000 mobile users, including people who used their phones for extended periods of time, over the 17-year project.
The study, led by Imperial College London and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, asked volunteers about mobile phone use and then followed them to see if they later developed a tumor. There have long been concerns that electromagnetic waves from phones could pose a health hazard, but the study found no link to an increased risk of brain cancer.
Long-term cell phone use is not linked to an increased risk of developing brain cancer, according to a major international study
Professor Mireille Toledano from Imperial College called the results ‘reassuring’, especially as current mobile phone use is substantially different from when the research began. Newer phones emit weaker electromagnetic fields and “people today also spend much less time with the phone against their head and more time on video calls, social media and surfing the Internet.”
Professor Paul Elliott, also from Imperial, added: ‘This is the world’s largest multinational long-term study (of its kind). We found no evidence that long-term or heavy cell phone use is associated with the risk of common brain tumors.”
The team’s research, published in the journal Environment International, found that the prevalence of brain tumors among the ten percent of people who spent the most hours on a mobile phone was not significantly different from those who used the mobile phone much less.