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Risk of pituitary tumors in cellular phone users: a case-control study.
Schoemaker MJ, Swerdlow AJ · 2009
View Original AbstractThis study found no link between cell phone use and pituitary tumors, even after 10+ years of use.
Plain English Summary
British researchers studied 291 people with pituitary tumors (small growths in a brain gland that regulates hormones) and 630 healthy controls to see if cell phone use increased tumor risk. They found no association between cell phone use and pituitary tumors, even among the heaviest users or those who had used phones for over 10 years. This suggests that cell phone radiation doesn't appear to cause this specific type of brain tumor.
Study Details
There is public concern and scientific interest regarding a potential effect of cellular phone use on the risk of developing intracranial tumors. Tumors of the pituitary gland have barely been investigated in this context, but are of interest because of their intracranial location.
We conducted a population-based case-control study between 2001 and 2005 of the risk of developing p...
Tumor risk was not associated with cellular phone use overall (adjusted odds ratio = 0.9, 95% confid...
We found no evidence that the risk of developing pituitary tumors is associated with cellular phone use for the induction time periods and intensities of use observed.
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@article{mj_2009_risk_of_pituitary_tumors_3375,
author = {Schoemaker MJ and Swerdlow AJ},
title = {Risk of pituitary tumors in cellular phone users: a case-control study.},
year = {2009},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19279493/},
}