Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Epidemiologic Evidence on mobile phones and tumor risk: a review.
Ahlbom A, Feychting M, Green A, Kheifets L, Savitz DA, Swerdlow AJ; ICNIRP (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) Standing Committee on Epidemiology. · 2009
View Original AbstractThis review found no brain tumor risk within 10 years of mobile phone use, but acknowledged the timeframe was too short to detect slow-growing tumors.
Plain English Summary
Researchers from the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection reviewed all available studies on mobile phone use and brain tumor risk through 2009. They found no increased risk of brain tumors within approximately 10 years of mobile phone use, though they noted the observation period may be too short to detect slow-growing tumors that could take decades to develop. The review acknowledged significant methodological problems in existing studies, including biased recall of phone usage patterns.
Study Details
This review summarizes and interprets epidemiologic evidence bearing on a possible causal relation between radiofrequency field exposure from mobile phone use and tumor risk.
We considered methodologic features that might explain the deviant results, but found no clear expla...
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@article{a_2009_epidemiologic_evidence_on_mobile_2939,
author = {Ahlbom A and Feychting M and Green A and Kheifets L and Savitz DA and Swerdlow AJ; ICNIRP (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) Standing Committee on Epidemiology.},
title = {Epidemiologic Evidence on mobile phones and tumor risk: a review.},
year = {2009},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19593153/},
}