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Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study.

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Elliott P, Toledano MB, Bennett J, Beale L, de Hoogh K, Best N, Briggs DJ. · 2010

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Living near cell phone towers during pregnancy showed no increased childhood cancer risk in this large British study.

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British researchers examined whether children whose mothers lived near cell phone towers during pregnancy had higher rates of cancer. They compared 1,397 children with cancer to 5,588 healthy children, analyzing the distance from their birth address to nearby cell towers and the radiofrequency exposure levels. The study found no increased cancer risk associated with proximity to cell towers or higher exposure levels during pregnancy.

Study Details

To investigate the risk of early childhood cancers associated with the mother's exposure to radiofrequency from and proximity to macrocell mobile phone base stations (masts) during pregnancy.

1397 cases of cancer in children aged 0-4 from national cancer registry 1999-2001 and 5588 birth con...

Incidence of cancers of the brain and central nervous system, leukaemia, and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas...

There is no association between risk of early childhood cancers and estimates of the mother's exposure to mobile phone base stations during pregnancy.

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Elliott P, Toledano MB, Bennett J, Beale L, de Hoogh K, Best N, Briggs DJ. (2010). Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study. BMJ. 340:c3077, 2010.
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@article{p_2010_mobile_phone_base_stations_3010,
  author = {Elliott P and Toledano MB and Bennett J and Beale L and de Hoogh K and Best N and Briggs DJ.},
  title = {Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study.},
  year = {2010},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20570865/},
}

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British researchers examined whether children whose mothers lived near cell phone towers during pregnancy had higher rates of cancer. They compared 1,397 children with cancer to 5,588 healthy children, analyzing the distance from their birth address to nearby cell towers and the radiofrequency exposure levels. The study found no increased cancer risk associated with proximity to cell towers or higher exposure levels during pregnancy.