Research proves that mobile phones do not cause brain cancer
Friday, October 21st, 2011 7:59:02 by Nabeel Salam
Research proves that mobile phones do not cause brain cancer
A research conducted by Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark has published a study suggesting that there is no link between the usage of mobile phones and brain cancer.
The case of mobile phones causing brain cancer has been debated for more than two decades. The recent study investigated more than 350,000 people using mobile phones for more than 18 years.
The results published on the website of British Medical Journal conclude that the users of mobile phones were at no risk of developing brain cancer.
There have been numerous other researches that have indicated that mobile phones were a cause of brain cancer, hence prompting the World Health Organisation to enlist the usage of mobile phones as carcinogenic (substance that causes cancer). The case remains ambiguous, meaning that it cannot be proved that mobile phones causes’ cancer, but neither can it be ruled out.
The Danish studied a total of 358,403 mobile phone owners and found out that 356 had gliomas (a type of brain and 846 had cancer of the central nervous system – both in line with the rates of those who did not own a mobile phone.
Therefore the study concluded that there was no significant difference in rates of brain or the central nervous system cancers among those who used mobile phones and those who did not. Some of the experts have deemed this research as ‘reassuring’.
The head of evidence and health information at Cancer Research UK, Hazel Nunn said, “These results are the strongest evidence yet that using a mobile phone does not seem to increase the risk of cancers of the brain or central nervous system in adults.”
Professor David Spiegelhalter at University of Cambridge, who is an expert in the understanding of risk was quoted saying, “The mobile phone records only go up to 1995 and so the comparison is mainly between early and late adopters, but the lack of any effect on brain tumours is still very important evidence.”
However, there are limitations to this study, including the exclusion of people who conduct their businesses via mobile phones, therefore excluding the most frequent users of mobile phones. The research had further limitations, such as the usage over a longer period of time and the effects on children.
Nonetheless, this research provides further evidence that the usage brain cancer is mutually exclusive to the usage of mobile phones.
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Posted by Nabeel Salam
on Oct 21 2011. Filed under Sci-Tech.
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