Mobile phone use<\/strong>\u00a0does not seem to increase the risk of brain cancer, according to a sweeping review commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n Cell phones emit non-ionising radiation at frequency and energy levels that are low enough not to damage DNA, unlike ionising radiation found in medical x-rays and the Sun.<\/p>\n And despite the surge in popularity of cell phones and other wireless technology that uses similar radio frequencies \u2013 including radio, TV, and baby monitors \u2013 there has not been a similar rise in the incidence of three types of\u00a0brain cancer<\/strong>, leukemias, or cancers of the pituitary or salivary glands, according to the meta-analysis, which included 63 studies published over two decades and was published in the journal Environmental International.<\/p>\n “For the main issue, mobile phones and brain cancers, we found no increased risk, even with 10+ years exposure and the maximum categories of call time or number of calls,” Mark Elwood, a study co-author and an honorary professor of cancer epidemiology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, said in a statement.<\/p>\n The new findings come on the heels of another major study that found people who use their cell phones often are not at higher risk of brain cancer compared with people who use them infrequently.<\/p>\n That analysis followed about 250,000 people for a median of seven years in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Finland.<\/p>\n Taken together, the results lend scientific heft to the notion that, for the vast majority of people, phones do not contribute to brain cancer risks.<\/p>\n “This really consolidates what we’ve been seeing,” Aslak Harbo Poulsen, a senior researcher at the Danish Cancer Institute, told Euronews Health.<\/p>\n His research in Denmark, which included about 358,000 mobile phone subscribers, was included in the meta-analysis, but he was not involved with the new study.<\/p>\n “There does not appear to be a strong correlation between mobile phone use and risk of these\u00a0tumours<\/strong>\u00a0in the general population,” he said.<\/p>\n The main open question, Harbo Poulsen said, is whether there might be an impact on a fraction of people, for example very heavy or long-term\u00a0cell phone<\/strong> users \u2013 but this would still be “extremely rare”.<\/p>\nNo correlation between cell phones and tumours<\/h2>\n