The largest ever investigation into the link between mobile phone use and cancer has concluded that there is no relationship.
420,000 mobile phone users in Denmark have been studied for 21 years and the results showed that they were no more likely to develop the disease than the general population.
The huge number of people involved in this study means that any link can now be ruled out even for long term users. The sample size covers more than half of Danes who started using a mobile phone between 1982 and 1995.
Christoffer Johansen of the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology said:
We found no evidence for an association between tumour risk and cellular telephone use among either short-term or long-term users. Moreover, the narrow confidence intervals provide evidence that any large association of risk of cancer and cellular telephone use can be excluded.”
The results of the study have recently been published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and will no doubt reassure the large number of mobile phone users who have been concerned about the risks of using a mobile phone.
Previous studies have hinted at a link between mobile phone use and brain cancer and there will always been anecdotal evidence to associate the two. Some investigations have indicated there is not link but until now there has been no conclusive evidence to debunk the theory.
With over 60 million handsets in use in the UK and 10 billion predicted worldwide over the next few years even a small risk would produce thousands of tumours.
The study followed the 420,095 users until 2002 by which time 14,249 cases of cancer had been noted with an expected total of 15,001.
Via The Times
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