Despite mobile phones being classified as a possible carcinogen in 2011, researchers could not find a link between using mobile phones and developing cancer.
The international review, commissioned by the World Health Organisation, collected and analysed data from 63 human observational studies carried out between 1994 and 2022 to look at the effect of radiofrequency exposure on cancer risk.
"Even if something is 100 per cent safe we can never know for sure...but what we see here is a huge amount of evidence pointing to there being no problem." "When you combine all of the studies together - there is no association between mobile phone use and brain cancer," Associate Professor at Monash University Ken Karipidis and ARPANSA director.
The findings point to a watering-down of what's classified as cancer-causing when it relates to mobile phones, the study authors said.Mobile phones from the past 30 yearsAlthough the findings are a massive breakthrough on the topic, studies in the area will continue.
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