THE first in a series of nationwide studies has concluded that mobile phones pose no increased risk of brain cancer – at least not after 10 years of use.
Over a two-year period, Helle Christensen’s team at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at every new case in Denmark of a type of rare brain tumour called an acoustic neuroma. “It’s located right where the radiation is most intense,” says Christensen. “If mobile phones should in some way be able to influence tumour tissue they should also influence acoustic neuromas.”
The team compared the 106 new cases with those…
