Cellphones don’t cause cancer: report
p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- If you’re worried that cellphone use can lead to cancer, worry no more – if you believe a new Danish Cancer Society study, that is.
A project which ran for almost 30 years surveyed cancers reported among 16 million adults in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and “found no related, observable change in the incidence of cases up until 2003,” says the Guardian, going on:
“Published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the research covers a more recent period than previous studies. It suggests that if there is any risk from regular use of mobile phones, it would take more than five to 10 years for the tumours to appear.”
The study covered 59,984 brain tumour cases diagnosed between 1974 and 2003, but “The only well-established risk factors — ionizing radiation and rare hereditary syndromes — account for a small proportion of brain tumour cases,” it found.
Lead author Isabelle Deltour is quoted as saying “Radio frequency electromagnetic fields emitted from mobile phones have been proposed as a risk factor for brain tumours; however, a biological mechanism that could explain the potential effect of radio frequency electromagnetic fields in the risk of brain tumours has not been identified.”
From 1974 to 2003, “brain tumour incidence rates in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden were stable, decreased, or continued a gradual increase that started before the introduction of mobile phones,” says the Guardian, adding:
“No change in incidence trends was observed from 1998 to 2003, the time when possible associations between mobile phone use and cancer risk would be informative about an induction period of five to 10 years.”
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Guardian - No cancer risk from increased mobile phone use, December 4, 2009
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