For many years now, people have been discouraged from using mobile phones all the time because it was highly believed that using these devices will expose people more to the radio signals being used by the phone. This will in turn cause the growth of cancer cells –specifically brain cancer; since phones are usually brought up towards the head when used for calls.
The medical scare has been around for quite some time and there have been some studies that actually do show a small relationship between the two factors. However, it has always been stated that the control group and the range of the study is far too low or far too small to provide conclusive evidence that phones actually do cause cancer.
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, there is no relationship between brain cancer and mobile phone usage. The group is part of the World Health Organization and they have been studying 13,000 individuals –all of whom are phone users in order to find the relationship between the sickness and the use of the technology.
The study has shown that there is no significant relationship between the sickness and mobile phones –a big positive news for all promoters of mobile phones. For now, no one has to live with the threat of cancer for every phone call that is made or SMS message received.
Despite this study being the largest, medical experts are still questioning the results. Primarily, the study lacks the proper type of control group, no non-phone users were part of that number. The study also failed to take into account the various types of phone usage factors and for the actual difference in phone types.
Still, it is also said that since the actual number of mobile phone users who have brain cancer has not increased; there is reason to believe that mobile phones have nothing to do with either glioma or meningioma.
Tags: Brain-cancer, phone-usage, Research, world-health-organization