Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Mobile phone use and incidence of glioma in the Nordic countries 1979-2008: consistency check.
Deltour I, Auvinen A, Feychting M, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Sankila R, Schüz J. · 2012
View Original AbstractThirty years of brain cancer data shows no population-level increases matching the dramatic mobile phone risks reported in some studies.
Plain English Summary
Researchers analyzed brain tumor rates across Nordic countries from 1979-2008 to see if mobile phone use caused increases in glioma (a type of brain cancer). Despite widespread mobile phone adoption during this period, they found no significant increase in brain tumor rates that would match the elevated risks reported in some earlier studies. The findings suggest that either mobile phones pose lower cancer risks than some studies indicated, or that cancer development takes longer than the timeframes studied so far.
Study Details
We investigated glioma IR trends in the Nordic countries, and compared the observed with expected incidence rates under various risk scenarios.
We analyzed annual age-standardized incidence rates in men and women aged 20 to 79 years during 1979...
For the period 1979 through 2008, the annual percent change in incidence rates was 0.4% (95% confide...
No clear trend change in glioma incidence rates was observed. Several of the risk increases seen in case-control studies appear to be incompatible with the observed lack of incidence rate increase in middle-aged men. This suggests longer induction periods than currently investigated, lower risks than reported from some case-control studies, or the absence of any association.
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@article{i_2012_mobile_phone_use_and_3002,
author = {Deltour I and Auvinen A and Feychting M and Johansen C and Klaeboe L and Sankila R and Schüz J.},
title = {Mobile phone use and incidence of glioma in the Nordic countries 1979-2008: consistency check.},
year = {2012},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22249239/},
}