Despite warnings to the contrary, the increasing use of cell phones has not resulted in an increase in brain cancer (glioma and meningioma), show the results of a study looking at 60,000 people diagnosed with brain cancer over a 30-year period, from 1974 to 2003. The people were all aged between 20 and 79 years.
Researchers in Denmark found that the incidence, the number of brain cancer cases diagnosed, was the same at the end of the study as it was at the beginning, went down, or increased before the large-spread availability of cell phones.
Cell phones have been blamed for brain cancer in previous research, but with a very small increase. The National Cancer Institute has a page on cell phones and brain cancer, where there are explanations about why the fear exists and what types of radiowaves are emitted by cell phones.
One thing to keep in mind is that this study, which was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, was done on adults and not children, so it makes no claim as to whether cell phones have an effect on the brain in children. As well, although the period was over 30 years, it could be that the time from when cell phones really became popular hasn’t been long enough to study the long-term effects.
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