A world health studies worldwide has found no link between cellphone use and brain cancer.
For the study published in the journal Environment International, 11 experts from 10 countries scanned 5,000 studies published between 1994 and 2022 to determine whether greater exposure to radio frequencies, used in mobile phones and other wireless electronics, base stations and transmitters might increase the risk of brain cancer in adults and children.
The final analysis included 63 studies and did not find an increased risk of brain cancer even with prolonged cellphone use of 10 years or more among those who spent a lot of time on their cellphones or made long phone calls.
Even though there has been a huge increase in mobile phone use in the last 20 years, there has not been a corresponding increase in the incidence of brain cancers. There was also no increased risks of leukaemia or brain cancer in children exposed to radio or TV transmitters or cellphone towers. Concerns about a potential link was first raised in 2013 by a WHO group that classified radio wave exposure as possibly carcinogenic.