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Mobile telephones and rates of brain cancer
Muscat JE, Hinsvark M, Malkin M · 2006
View Original AbstractBrain cancer rates remained unchanged despite exponential mobile phone growth from 1984-2002, suggesting no population-level cancer risk.
Plain English Summary
Researchers analyzed brain cancer rates in the United States from 1973 to 2002, comparing them to the dramatic rise in mobile phone use that began in 1984. Despite mobile phone subscriptions increasing exponentially during this period, rates of neuronal brain cancers remained unchanged. This suggests that mobile phone use does not increase the risk of these specific types of brain tumors.
Study Details
The risk of most primary brain cancers including gliomas and acoustic neuromas is unrelated to the use of mobile telephones in several studies. The long-term effects of mobile phones remain to be determined. An increased risk caused by short-term mobile phone use was reported for neuroepithelial tumors, a rare histologic subgroup of brain cancers that are characterized by neuronal features. We analyzed time trends in the age-adjusted incidence rate of adult neuronal cancers in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program from 1973 to 2002.
The rates did not change during this period, despite the exponential increase in mobile phone subsc...
These results indicate that mobile phone use is unrelated to the risk of neuronal cancers.
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@article{je_2006_mobile_telephones_and_rates_3262,
author = {Muscat JE and Hinsvark M and Malkin M},
title = {Mobile telephones and rates of brain cancer},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16825795/},
}