The BBC reports that the British Journal of Cancer has published a new study indicating that regular use of mobile phones doesn’t increase the risk of brain cancer.
Carried out by the Tokyo Women’s Medical University, the study examined the effect ofradiation from handsets on different parts of the brain, the first study of its type. It compared 683 healthy people with 322 brain cancer patients, examining how long they’d been using mobilephones and how often per day, as well as the amount of radiation emitted by different handsets.
Finally they looked into the ways each phone might affect different areas of the brain. Professor Naohito Yamaguchi, the lead researcher on the project, said, “Using our newly developed and more accurate techniques, we found no association between mobile phone use andcancer, providing more evidence to suggest they don’t cause brain cancer.”
It’s the latest in a series of studies into the subject, some of which have indicated that there could bea link between mobile phone use and brain cancer. However, the majority of studies have been unable to establish that link.
