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Long-term Mobile Phone Use and Acoustic Neuroma Risk.
Pettersson D, Mathiesen T, Prochazka M, Bergenheim T, Florentzson R, Harder H, Nyberg G, Siesjö P, Feychting M. · 2014
View Original AbstractLong-term mobile phone use showed no significant increase in acoustic neuroma risk, even among users with over 680 hours of calling time.
Plain English Summary
Swedish researchers studied 451 people with acoustic neuromas (benign brain tumors near the ear) and 710 healthy controls to see if long-term mobile phone use increases tumor risk. They found no significant association between phone use and acoustic neuroma development, even among the heaviest users who talked for over 680 hours total. The study suggests that any apparent connection in previous research may be due to detection bias rather than phones actually causing tumors.
Study Details
There is concern about potential effects of radiofrequency fields generated by mobile phones on cancer risk. Most previous studies have found no association between mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma, although information about long-term use is limited.
We conducted a population-based, nation-wide, case-control study of acoustic neuroma in Sweden. Elig...
Ever having used mobile phones regularly (defined as weekly use for at least 6 months) was associate...
The findings do not support the hypothesis that long-term mobile phone use increases the risk of acoustic neuroma. The study suggests that phone use might increase the likelihood that an acoustic neuroma case is detected and that there could be bias in the laterality analyses performed in previous studies.
Show BibTeX
@article{d_2014_longterm_mobile_phone_use_3303,
author = {Pettersson D and Mathiesen T and Prochazka M and Bergenheim T and Florentzson R and Harder H and Nyberg G and Siesjö P and Feychting M. },
title = {Long-term Mobile Phone Use and Acoustic Neuroma Risk.},
year = {2014},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24434752/},
}