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Mobile phone use and risk of glioma: a case-control study in Korea for 2002-2007.
Yoon S, Choi JW, Lee E, Ahn H, Kim HS, Choi HD, Kim N. · 2015
View Original AbstractKorean study found no significant brain tumor risk from mobile phones, but elevated risk patterns for same-side users suggest continued caution is warranted.
Plain English Summary
Korean researchers studied 285 brain tumor patients and 285 healthy controls to investigate whether mobile phone use increases the risk of gliomas, a serious type of brain cancer. The study found no significant overall increase in brain tumor risk from mobile phone use, though there was a non-significant trend toward higher risk when people used phones on the same side of their head where the tumor developed. The researchers concluded their findings don't support the idea that mobile phones cause brain tumors, but suggested more research is needed for long-term users.
Study Details
There has been a growing concern about the possible carcinogenic effects of the electromagnetic radiofrequency fields emitted from mobile phones. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between mobile phone use and the development of gliomas in Korea.
Our study methods were based on the International Interphone study that aimed to evaluate possible a...
For the entire group, no significant relationship was investigated between gliomas and regular use o...
Our results do not support the hypothesis that the use of mobile phones increases the risk of glioma; however, we found a non-significant increase in risk among ipsilateral users. These findings suggest further evaluation for glioma risk among long-term mobile phone users.
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@article{s_2015_mobile_phone_use_and_3498,
author = {Yoon S and Choi JW and Lee E and Ahn H and Kim HS and Choi HD and Kim N.},
title = {Mobile phone use and risk of glioma: a case-control study in Korea for 2002-2007.},
year = {2015},
url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872697/},
}