There would be almost no risk of developing a brain tumor from moderate mobile phone use. This is confirmed by a new study, while previous work recognizes the “probably carcinogenic” nature of too intensive exposure to radio frequencies from these devices.
- Follow-up of 800,000 women over 10 years in UK shows no increase in brain tumor risk linked to mobile phone use
- Follow-up of 800,000 women over 10 years in UK shows no increase in brain tumor risk linked to mobile phone use
- Previous studies had shown that the risk of brain tumors linked to mobile phones existed for a daily use of 17 minutes for 10 years
- The International Agency for Research against Cancer considers the link between mobile phones and brain tumors possible
This is a study that will undoubtedly make people talk. Because it addresses a controversial subject, that of the potential danger of mobile phone waves, and above all because it presents conclusions that are not in line with other works on the same subject. If we are to believe the Journal of National Cancer Institute (JNCI) which publishes research conducted by Oxford scholarsthe use of a mobile phone could not cause a brain tumor.
20 minutes of use per week
According to this study, which involved nearly 800,000 women born between 1935 and 1950 and questioned about their health data and their habits in terms of mobile phone use for the first time in 2001 and a second time in 2011, the risk of developing a brain tumor compared to people who never use a mobile phone would be “statistically insignificant”. This over a period of 10 years and for users speaking at least 20 minutes per week.
This is what, if not contradicting, in any case attenuates the effect of the position on this subject of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (a structure that depends on the WHO). While British researchers had observed in 2011 a 39% increase in brain tumors over the last twenty years, the IARC had affirmed that the increasingly common use of mobile phones could be one of the possible causes and classified the fields electromagnetic radiation as “probably carcinogenic”.
Other less reassuring studies
“The use of these phones in moderate conditions does not increase the risk of brain tumors,” replies today Kirstin Pirtie, co-author of the JNCI study. A certainty that will not necessarily be shared. Nor by the associations which are currently worried about the possible health consequences of the deployment of the 5G network. And even less by other scientists, such as for example those academics from Berkeley, California who were highlighting in July 2021 a risk of developing tumors increased by 60% for those who use their phone 17 minutes a day. Admittedly, this duration of use is much higher than that adopted by the Oxford researchers’ study, but this increase in the risk appears considerable!
To reach this much more worrying result, the Berkeley scientists explained that interference between mobile phone signals and cellular mechanisms caused the creation of “stress proteins” capable of causing DNA damage, conclusions based on on the analysis of more than 40 studies carried out in different countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan or New Zealand.
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