Martin Roosli of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel surveyed 1000 young people (age 7-19) in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Sadly, 352 of the subjects had a brain tumour and 646 were healthy controls from the same demographics as the test group.
The research team analysed the survey data and couldn’t find any link between mobile phone usage and brain tumours. They also could not find any increase in tumours that were located in areas of the head receiving the largest amount of exposure. The researchers do note that these results may be influenced by the usage patterns of teens and tweens who’ll text until their fingers fall off, but rarely make phone calls.
Nonetheless, you can file this study in the “pro” column and keep using those mobile phones with reckless abandon. That is until the next study comes out and says we’re all doomed. [WSJ]
skdrz
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 11:43 AMso i bought this cell safe case for nothing?
Sam
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:16 PMYes, until the next study comes out, and you will be saying “so i sold my cell safe case for nothing?” :P
noko
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 5:08 PMWere you duped by that stupid radio ad about the cell phone casing that proved through an ‘independent study’ that it protected you from the evil radiation?
EckyThump
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:15 PMThe amount of phone users that get a cancerous growth in their heads directly adjacent to where they hold their phone cannot be a coincidence! Nonetheless, if they keep making these tests to fit the makers requirements, then I guess the bloody things are safe!!
TG
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3:17 PMyet nobody complains of any tumors in their hands… that cannot be a coincidence!
EckyThump
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 4:01 PMI would imagine theirs not as much brain matter in peoples hands?
TG
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 4:38 PMof course there’s not, but there’s plenty of skin and soft tissue, both of which are affected by different cancers (often caused by radiation exposure – ionising radation that is, not non-ionising radiation like mobiles produce).
EckyThump
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 5:26 PMOk, lets do this,.. next Census (coming soon to your door) add the questions, What side do you use to answer phone,.. L/R. What side is your brain tumer,.. L/R – n/a. What have we got, 22 million or so! That should give us a decent cross section. How will that be. #]
cayal
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 12:45 PMPhones don’t cause cancer. Cancer causes cancer.
chrisp
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 9:10 PMEating Kraft Dinner causes head cansah.
Danny Allen
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 9:30 PMKraft Dinner? I demand linkage! :)
Corteks
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 1:50 PMIf wireless transmissions cause cancer we’re all boned anyway, with or without mobile use :P
JM
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 1:53 PMJust because a two bit institute using a tiny sample group says it is so, doesn’t mean anything. A sample group of 100,000 people may not even be enough. It is a difficult issue to prove or disprove. All “the experts” can really find is that a prolonged use of mobile phones does increase the temperature of the side of the brain in proximity to your mobile. It has been suggested that this increase in temperature could have a “microwave oven” style affect on your ear and brain. However, even the world health organisation have announced recently that they cannot prove or disprove it whatsoever.
Danny Allen
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 9:31 PMYeah, it’s hard to prove or disprove it. Every month there’s a study one way or the other. I just truly hope we don’t end up looking at the situation 20 years from now like we have cigarettes.