Hamburg, May 21: A large and detailed study finds no connections between the use of cellphones and brain tumors, the Independent reported on Tuesday.
In the largest study of its kind using 10,000 test subjects from 13 countries no links were found between using cellphones and brain cancer.
The test subjects were made up of adult brain tumor patients with “healthy controls,” but the study could not make a connection between the use of the cellphones and the two types of brain cancers.
Astonishably, they actually found a vaguely lower rate of risk with cellphone users.
The age of the 5000 patients varied between 30 to 59 years old who were suffering from either glioma or meningioma.
However considering severe legal issues on what can be claimed about cancer risk, the International Agency for Research on Cancer refused to claim that there is no connection between the two and declined to categorically make assurances that there was no risk in using cellphones in the long term.
“It is impossible to say there is no risk whatsoever [but] the study has not shown a raised risk of brain tumors and it has certainly not shown that mobile phones cause brain tumors, said one of the research’s chief contributors Professor Anthony Swerdlow of the Institute of Cancer Research.
It is noteworthy to mention that in 2005 a smaller study was conducted in Sweden that found a “statistically significant association” between the use of the cellphones and brain tumors; however, Swerdlow dismisses it as a “outliner” study.
——–Agencies