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The Scandinavian study appeared in Journal of the National Cancer Institute now says it is official: Cell phones don’t increase the risk of brain cancer.
“We did not observe (notice) an effect of mobile phones on the incidence of brain tumours,” told Isabelle Deltour who is a study lead the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen told a Canadian television network here on Thursday.
“If there was a connection, we would have expected a sudden marked increase in the rates, especially among younger males, which were the first to use cells phones, We didn’t see that,” Deltour mentioned.
As part of this extensive study, 16 million people in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were tracked for what happened to rates of glioma and meningioma brain tumours among them over 30 years.
But the researchers found that only 60,000 of them developed brain tumours. This rate of brain tumour was not higher than that seen before the use of cell phones began.
The study found that there was no increase in risk. If there was any increase in risk, it was too small to be observed or the period needed for cell phones to cause brain tumours was longer than the period studied.
