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Effect of cell phone-like electromagnetic radiation on primary human thyroid cells.
Silva V, Hilly O, Strenov Y, Tzabari C, Hauptman Y, Feinmesser R. · 2015
View Original AbstractLaboratory study found no thyroid cancer markers in human cells exposed to cell phone radiation, but real-world cancer risk requires long-term population studies.
Plain English Summary
Israeli researchers exposed human thyroid cells to cell phone-like radiofrequency radiation to test whether it could trigger cancer-related changes. They found no effects on cell proliferation, DNA damage markers, or stress indicators that typically signal cellular harm. This suggests that under their specific test conditions, cell phone radiation did not promote thyroid cancer development in isolated human cells.
Study Details
To evaluate the potential carcinogenic effects of radiofrequency energy (RFE) emitted by cell phones on human thyroid primary cells.
Primary thyroid cell culture was prepared from normal thyroid tissue obtained from patients who unde...
Our cells highly expressed thyroglobulin (Tg) and sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) confirming the origi...
Our conditions of RFE exposure seem to have no potential carcinogenic effect on human thyroid cells. Moreover, common biomarkers usually associated to environmental stress also remained unchanged. We failed to find an association between cell phone-RFE and thyroid cancer. Additional studies are recommended.
Show BibTeX
@article{v_2015_effect_of_cell_phonelike_2888,
author = {Silva V and Hilly O and Strenov Y and Tzabari C and Hauptman Y and Feinmesser R.},
title = {Effect of cell phone-like electromagnetic radiation on primary human thyroid cells.},
year = {2015},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26689947/},
}