Australian Study Reveals Mobile Phones Don't Cause Brain Cancer
For the past several years, people have believed that mobile phones can be detrimental to health. Previous studies have linked its increasing usage to cause brain cancer. But that may all be changed now after a study revealed that the mobile phones are safer than people actually thought. According to a report by Android Authority, a study conducted by the University of Sydney claimed that using the mobile phone cannot cause brain cancer.
Express UK detailed that the study was led by Simon Chapman, an emeritus professor of public health at the University Sydney. Together with his team, they looked at in Australia 34,000 men and women diagnosed with brain cancer between the years 1982 to 2012. They also looked at the national mobile phone usage between 1987 and 2012 and compared the two data together.
The result of their study showed that during the 30 year period, the use of the handset greatly increased. From nine percent of the population in 1993, the number grew over 90 percent at the end of the study. But even with the dramatic increase, researchers did not find any correlation between mobile phone usage and brain tumors. Daily Mail reported that cancer rates in people aged 20 to 84 increased only slightly in men while it remained stable in women.
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And even though there were rises in tumors among the elderly, the researchers stated that it cannot be connected to mobile phone usage since the growth started five years before mobile phones arrived in Australia in 1987. It was proposed that rise of tumors in that age group was likely attributed to improvements in diagnostic detection which include Computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
Moreover, the study detailed that mobile phones produce only a non-ionizing radiation, which means that it is low energy and it heats up enough to make the electrons be stirred up. It is not cancerous though so users do not need to worry.
