A recent World Health Organization, WHO, analysis has found no link between smartphone use and brain cancer.
For decades, radiation from mobile devices has been a source of concern, with the WHO’s cancer division classifying it as possibly carcinogenic to humans in 2011.
However, the latest study, which analyzed research from 1994 to 2022, discovered no connection between cellphone usage and cancer.
This was true even for heavy users who make lengthy phone calls or use their cellphones nonstop.
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The incidence of brain cancers has not increased, despite the widespread use of wireless technology.
A team of 11 researchers from 10 countries, including the Australian government’s radiation protection authority, evaluated 63 papers for the study.
They investigated potential connections between exposure to radio waves from wireless technology and brain and salivary gland tumors and leukemia.
The research concluded that despite the surge in wireless technology use, the incidence of malignancies has not increased correspondingly.
Co-author Mark Elwood, a professor of cancer epidemiology at the University of Auckland, stated that none of the key research questions revealed elevated risks.
The review supports previous findings from the WHO and other international health organizations, which have also found insufficient evidence to conclude that mobile phone radiation poses a health risk.
