Mobile Phones do not increase the Risk of Cancer: Danish Research

According to a large scale research by Danish researchers, using mobile phones in no manner increase the risk of cancer, as was thought previously. The study involved more than 350,000 people and was published on Friday. The results were released in the British Medical Journal’s website and were in accordance with the results of similar researches conducted earlier.

For conducting the research, the scientists of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology located in Copenhagen, considered people that were aged at least 30. Among those people, those who had subscribed to mobile phone contracts were compared with non-subscribers. The rates of brain tumors occurring in both categories were compared from 1990 to 2007.  This large scale research was appreciated and thought to be impressive by other experts.

"This paper supports most other reports which do not find any detrimental effects of phone use under normal exposures," says Malcolm Sperrin, the director at Medical Physics at Britain's Royal Berkshire Hospital and also a fellow of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.

The World Health Organization’s(WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer decided at the end of May that cell phones should now be placed in the “possibly carcinogenic to humans” category rather than the “carcinogenic to humans” category. So now we will see cell phones in the same list that contains lead, coffee and chloroform.

However, only a month later of the above decision the “International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's committee on epidemiology” said that the scientific evidence currently available is increasingly pointing away from cancer and mobile phones being linked in any way and that it is very unlikely that a mobile phone user develops a brain tumor because of the phone, rather some other explanation is always available for the development of a tumor.

As for the amount of mobile phones that are use, over 5 billion actually, the link between cancer and mobile phones, if any, prompts to lengthy debates. And all should be made clear to the users if they actually are in some kind of risk of cancer development.