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Time trend in incidence of malignant neoplasms of the central nervous system in relation to mobile phone use among young people in Japan.
Sato Y, Kiyohara K, Kojimahara N, Yamaguchi N. · 2016
View Original AbstractBrain cancer increases in young Japanese adults couldn't be explained by mobile phone use patterns, suggesting no clear population-level link.
Plain English Summary
Japanese researchers analyzed brain cancer rates among young adults from 1993 to 2010 to see if rising mobile phone use could explain increasing cancer incidence. While they found brain cancer rates did increase during this period (ranging from 2.7% to 12.3% annually depending on age and gender), the patterns didn't match what would be expected from mobile phone exposure. The study concluded that heavy mobile phone use cannot explain the overall increase in brain cancers among young Japanese adults.
Study Details
The aim of this study was to examine whether incidence of malignant neoplasms of the central nervous system from 1993 to 2010 has increased among young people in Japan, and whether the increase could be explained by increase in mobile phone use.
Joinpoint regression analysis of incidence data was performed. Subsequently, the expected incidence ...
Annual percent change was 3.9% (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.6-6.3) for men in their 20s from 199...
Patterns in sex-, age-, and period-specific incidence increases are inconsistent with sex-, age-, and period-specific prevalence trends, suggesting the overall incidence increase cannot be explained by heavy mobile phone use.
Show BibTeX
@article{y_2016_time_trend_in_incidence_3364,
author = {Sato Y and Kiyohara K and Kojimahara N and Yamaguchi N. },
title = {Time trend in incidence of malignant neoplasms of the central nervous system in relation to mobile phone use among young people in Japan.},
year = {2016},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27197787/},
}