No link between mobile phone use and brain tumour

No link has been found between the use of mobile phones and the development of brain tumours according to new research published today.

Danish researchers at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, say this is the biggest study on phones and tumours in the brain to date.

Though the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has recently classified radio frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans, no study had found any increased risk of cancer to mobile phone users.

A total of 10,729 central nervous system tumours occurred in the study period of 1990/07, but when further  subdivisions were made by researchers including into mobile and non mobile phone risk increased – cancer rates were the same for both long-term users an non-users of mobile phones.