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Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds

Some 63 studies from 1994 to 2022 have been analysed by Australian researchers commissioned by the World Health Organization

And what makes us quite confident is … even though mobile phone use has skyrocketed, brain tumour rates have remained stable,” Karipidis, Arpansa’s health impact assessment assistant director, said. By designating radio frequency electromagnetic fields as a possible carcinogen in 2011, the WHO put them on par with hundreds of other agents for which evidence of harm is uncertain, such as aloe vera, pickled vegetables, and working in a dry cleaners. Since that classification Karipidis said many more cohort studies had been published which do not rely on people to recall their past exposure and in 2019 the WHO commissioned a number of systematic reviews to look at the health effects from radio waves.

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