Cell phones do not increase the risk of brain cancer

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Many believe that cell phone use can increase the risk of brain tumor development. These assumptions have become especially popular after the launch of the fifth generation of 5G communications.

Yes, mobile phones emit radio frequency waves that, when absorbed by tissues, can cause them to heat up and damage them. But can these waves penetrate the brain and negatively affect it? Scientists have answered this question.

A team of researchers from Oxford Population Health and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reported the results of a large prospective study in the UK on the relationship between the use of mobile phones and the risk of developing brain tumors .

About 776,000 women took part in the study, filling out questionnaires about their use of mobile phones. The participants were observed for an average of 14 years. During this period, a brain tumor was detected in 3,200 participants (0.42%). At the same time, there was no significant difference in the risk of developing a brain tumor between those who had never used a mobile phone and those who were phone users.

Kirstin Pirie from the department of cancer epidemiology at Oxford Population Health, a co-author of the study notes: “These the results confirm the accumulated data that using a mobile phone under normal conditions does not increase the risk of developing a brain tumor”.