Updated 02.33 | Published 02.16
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full screen Cell phone use is not a cause of brain tumors, according to a new study. Archive image. Photo: Annika Byrde/NTB/TT
No, cell phones do not cause brain tumors. This is established in a new study in which the Karolinska Institutet (KI) participated.
The question of the connection between high mobile phone use and cancer has been relevant since the entry of mobile phones into our lives. And now a study published in the journal Environment International states that this is not the case.
It is the Karolinska Institute that, together with Imperial College London in Great Britain, has studied over 250,000 mobile phone users for almost 20 years.
The study participants, who came from five countries, had to answer questions about their mobile phone use between 2007 and 2013. Afterwards, the participants were followed in cancer registers, to see who developed a brain tumor.
The result was that of the ten percent of participants who talked the most on the phone, the incidence of brain tumors was no higher than in the groups who talked less.
The participants who used a mobile phone for more than 15 years before answering the questions did not have a higher risk of suffering from a brain tumor than those who used a mobile phone for a shorter time.
According to the researchers, the results of the study will be important for the future in terms of health risk assessments, but they also say that more studies on the subject are needed.