Study On Mobile Phone Brain Cancer Risk Is Inconclusive

Filed in archive Cancer , Studies on May 17, 2010

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The buzz that mobile phone use is associated to certain brain cancers have been around for some time. However, research findings remain inconclusive. So as the WHO study on this case.

The largest study so far on mobile phone use and risk of certain brain cancers is also inconclusive. The said study from WHO is a 10-year study of 13,000 people. The findings revealed that heaviest phone users were reported to have a higher risk of both types of cancer. But then the researchers said "biases and errors" in the study prevented them from making a causal link.

The director of the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (which co-ordinated the study) said that changing patterns of mobile phone use and lower emissions from mobile handsets meant further investigation into the phones and brain cancer was needed.