Cell Phones May Not Increase The Risk Of Brain Cancer After All
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Whether you carry the new iPhone 4s, Droid, or prefer to carry a basic cell phone, statistics indicate that regardless of your age or income level you probably carry a cell phone. In fact, land line usage is drastically declining, likely due to the increased flexibilty and mobility that a cell phone provides. But do we pay a price for that freedom? For the past several years, there has been much debate concerning whether cell phone usage increases your risk of developing brain cancer.
According to a study conducted by Danish Researchers published last week the answer is no. The study, which involved more than 350,000 mobile phone subscribers and is reportedly the largest study to date, found that mobile phones do not increase the risk of cancer.
The results, published on the British Medical Journal's website, coincide with a series of other studies that have reached comparable conclusions.
Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark studied people aged at least 30-years-old who subscribed to mobile phone contracts and compared their rates of brain tumor-with non-subscribers between 1990 and 2007.
Outside specialists said the great scale of the trial was remarkable.
"This paper supports most other reports which do not find any detrimental effects of phone use under normal exposures," the director of Medical Physics at Britain's Royal Berkshire Hospital Malcolm Sperrin told Reuters.
Over the summer, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer stated that cell phone use should be classified as "possibly carcinogenic to humans," placing the mobile devices in the same category as lead, chloroform and coffee.
However, approximately a month later the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's committee on epidemiology claimed the scientific evidence increasingly pointed away from a link between mobile phone use and brain tumors. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have reached similar conclusions.
The number of mobile phones has risen exponentially since the early 1980s, with nearly 5 billion handsets in use today. There has been large debates about their potential link to the main types of brain tumor, glioma and meningioma.
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