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Brain tumour development in rats exposed to electromagnetic fields used in wireless cellular communication.
Salford LG, Brun A, Persson BRR · 1997
View Original AbstractThis study found no evidence that 915 MHz cell phone radiation accelerated existing brain tumors in rats over 2-3 weeks.
Plain English Summary
Researchers injected brain tumor cells into 154 pairs of rats, then exposed half to 915 MHz microwaves (the frequency used by early cell phones) for 7 hours daily over 2-3 weeks while keeping the other half as controls. They found no difference in tumor growth between exposed and unexposed rats, suggesting that microwave exposure did not accelerate existing brain tumors in this particular experimental setup.
Study Details
The effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields were investigated in a rat brain glioma model.
Some of the exposures correspond to electromagnetic fields used in wireless communication. Microwave...
Our study of 154 matched pairs of rats does not show any significant difference in tumour size betwe...
Thus our results do not support that even an extensive daily exposure to EMF promotes tumour growth when given from the fifth day after the start of tumour growth in the rat brain until the sacrifice of the animal after about 16 days.
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@article{lg_1997_brain_tumour_development_in_3349,
author = {Salford LG and Brun A and Persson BRR},
title = {Brain tumour development in rats exposed to electromagnetic fields used in wireless cellular communication.},
year = {1997},
doi = {10.1023/A:1019102627678},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1019102627678},
}