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Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: May 6th, 2016, 11:00pm UTC

A study from Australia reassures us that cellphones are reasonably safe, and do not cause brain cancer. Chris Mills writes from Gizmodo: "The study examines the incidence of brain cancer in the Australian population between 1982 to 2013. The study pitted the prevalence of mobile phones among the population -- starting at 0 percent -- against brain cancer rates, using data from national cancer registration data. The results showed a very slight increase in brain cancer rates among males, but a stable level among females. There were significant increases in over -70s, but began in 1982, before cellphones were even a thing." What makes the study in Australia so authentic compared to other studies conducted in other countries is the fact that all diagnosed cases of cancer have to be registered by law.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Cellphones+Do+Not+Cause+Brain+Cancer%2C+Says+29-Year+Study%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1T3mwmS"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F05%2F06%2F2259208%2Fcellphones-do-not-cause-brain-cancer-says-29-year-study%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/06/2259208/cellphones-do-not-cause-brain-cancer-says-29-year-study?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/06/2259208/cellphones-do-not-cause-brain-cancer-says-29-year-study?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/xYqNA1DZ05g" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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