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Mobile phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents: a multicenter case-control study.

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Aydin D, Feychting M, Schüz J, Tynes T, Andersen TV, Schmidt LS, Poulsen AH, Johansen C, Prochazka M, Lannering B, Klæboe L, Eggen T, Jenni D, Grotzer M, Von der Weid N, Kuehni CE, Röösli M. · 2011

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This major European study found no increased brain tumor risk in young mobile phone users, though longer-term effects remain unknown.

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Researchers studied whether mobile phone use increases brain tumor risk in children and teenagers by comparing 352 young brain tumor patients with 646 healthy controls across four European countries. They found no statistically significant increase in brain tumor risk among regular mobile phone users, and importantly, no relationship between the amount of phone use and tumor development. The study suggests that mobile phone use is not causing brain tumors in young people.

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We investigated whether mobile phone use is associated with brain tumor risk among children and adolescents.

CEFALO is a multicenter case–control study conducted in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland tha...

Regular users of mobile phones were not statistically significantly more likely to have been diagnos...

The absence of an exposure–response relationship either in terms of the amount of mobile phone use or by localization of the brain tumor argues against a causal association.

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Aydin D, Feychting M, Schüz J, Tynes T, Andersen TV, Schmidt LS, Poulsen AH, Johansen C, Prochazka M, Lannering B, Klæboe L, Eggen T, Jenni D, Grotzer M, Von der Weid N, Kuehni CE, Röösli M. (2011). Mobile phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents: a multicenter case-control study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 103(16):1264-1276, 2011.
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@article{d_2011_mobile_phone_use_and_2948,
  author = {Aydin D and Feychting M and Schüz J and Tynes T and Andersen TV and Schmidt LS and Poulsen AH and Johansen C and Prochazka M and Lannering B and Klæboe L and Eggen T and Jenni D and Grotzer M and Von der Weid N and Kuehni CE and Röösli M.},
  title = {Mobile phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents: a multicenter case-control study.},
  year = {2011},
  
  url = {https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/103/16/1264/898567?login=true},
}

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Researchers studied whether mobile phone use increases brain tumor risk in children and teenagers by comparing 352 young brain tumor patients with 646 healthy controls across four European countries. They found no statistically significant increase in brain tumor risk among regular mobile phone users, and importantly, no relationship between the amount of phone use and tumor development. The study suggests that mobile phone use is not causing brain tumors in young people.