WHO Study: No Clear Link Between Mobile Phone Use and Cancer

Filed in archive Mobile Phones , Research on May 18, 2010

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A study by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), including more than 13,000 cell phone users over the last 10 years revealed inconclusive results about the connection between mobile phone use and cancer. However, they also said that it is still too early to say that there is no risk associated at all with mobile phone use.

Groups such as the British-based GSM Association, representing international cell phone firms, and the Australian-based Mobile Manufacturers welcomed the study.

Results showed that overall, mobile phone users in fact had a lower risk of brain cancer than people who had never used one, but the many scientists who did the research study said this suggested errors in the methodology of the research. Others showed high cumulative call time slightly increases the risk, but again this conclusion was unreliable.

Mobile phone use has risen exponentially since the 1980s. There are about five billion mobile phones currently being used worldwide.