(ANSA) – ROME, 03 SEPTEMBER – Cell phones are not linked to brain and head cancers, even if used for a long time or over many years. This is confirmed by a comprehensive review of available data, commissioned by the World Health Organization and published in the journal Environment International. Cell phones, like everything that uses wireless technology, including laptops and TVs, emit radio frequency electromagnetic radiation, or radio waves. Based on some early studies showing that there could be a possible association with brain cancer from using these phones for many hours, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the WHO designated radio frequency fields from cell phones as a “possible” cancer risk, a category that includes hundreds of other agents and is very different from “certainly” carcinogenic substances such as smoking. Since then, many other more in-depth cohort studies have been published with different results. Finally, the new systematic review led by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Arpansa), which examined more than 5,000 studies, identifying the most scientifically rigorous. The final analysis included 63 observational studies in humans published between 1994 and 2022, making it the most comprehensive review to date. “We concluded that the evidence does not show a link between mobile phones and brain cancer or other head and neck cancers,” said lead author Associate Professor Ken Karipidis, Vice-Chair of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. The review found no association between mobile phone use and cancer, no association with long-term use (use for 10 years or more) or with amount of use (time spent on the phone). This is demonstrated by the fact that “even as mobile phone use has skyrocketed, brain cancer rates have remained stable,” Karipidis said. (ANSA).
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