Study: Mobile phone users do not have increased risk of brain tumours

THE use of mobile phones does not increase the risk of brain tumours, new large-scale research has shown.

In a study of more than 776,000 women, there was no elevated risk of developing tumours in those who had used mobile phones every day over two decades.

Longstanding fears around the impact of mobile phones on the brain have been reignited following the launch of 5G wireless technologies.

Most of the studies that have investigated this potential connection have been retrospective in nature, whereby individuals report mobile phone use after a diagnosis of cancer, meaning that the results may be biased.

Now, scientists from Oxford Population Health and International Agency for Research on Cancer have shown in their large-scale study that there is no increased risk of brain tumours in mobile phone users, compared to those who have never used one.