Phones are NOT linked to giving your cancer, major new international study of 250,000 mobile users says

According to a major international study, prolonged mobile phone use is not linked to an increased risk of developing brain cancer.

Researchers followed 250,000 mobile device users, including those who used their phone for long periods, over the 17-year project.

The research, led by Imperial College London and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, asked volunteers about their mobile phone use and then followed them to see if they subsequently developed a tumour. There have long been concerns that electromagnetic waves from phones were a health hazard, but the study found no link to an increased risk of brain cancer.

Professor Mireille Toledano, of Imperial College, called the results “reassuring”, especially as current mobile phone use is substantially different from when the study began. Newer phones emit weaker electromagnetic fields and “people today also spend much less time with the phone on their head and more time making video calls, social media and browsing the Internet.”

Professor Paul Elliott, also from Imperial, added: ‘This is the world’s largest long-term multinational study (of its kind). We have found no evidence that prolonged or intensive mobile phone use is associated with the risk of common brain tumors.’

The team’s research, published in the journal Environment International, found that the prevalence of brain tumors among the ten percent of people who spent the most hours on a mobile phone did not differ significantly from those who used the mobile phone much less.