No link between mobiles and cancer ... yet, European researchers say
A recent study examining the adverse health effects of long-term mobile phone use has found no clear link between mobiles and brain cancer. Researchers are quick to point out, however, that that doesn't necessarily mean no such link exists. They stress that more research is needed before the exact relation between the radio waves associated with the ubiquitous mobile phone and cancer risks can be definitively established. Researchers in Finland conducted their study in five European countries to better understand how, if at all, sustained exposure to radio waves is linked to brain cancer.
The research team studied several different factors related to mobile use, including duration of use, years since first use, and cumulative number of calls or cumulative hours of use, but detected no increase in the risk of brain cancer.
Though this may come as good news to those who can't seem to put their phones
down, the research team stresses that extensive mobile phone use is a relatively
recent, and growing, phenomenon that will require further study to before the
ramifications of sustained exposure can be positively established.
Despite this find, they state that their results “overall do not indicate an increased risk of glioma in relation to mobile phone use, the possible risk in the most heavily exposed part of the brain with long-term use needs to be explored further before firm conclusions can be drawn.”