The recent study released by Danish
scientists on the long-debated topic of whether cellphones are essentially a
factor in causing cancer to people/animals vindicates its long held position on
the topic.
The nationwide study,
conducted by researchers led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in
Copenhagen, is the world’s largest
study on the subject till date, involving over 350,000 cellphone users over a
period of 18 years.
The research involved
study of data on the whole Danish population aged above 30 between the period
of 1990 to 2007.
“The subject has been
one of serious concern for a long time and COAI believes that misinformation is
best put to rest through credible and scientific research’s and studies,” said Rajan
S Mathews, director general, COAI.
COAI believes that
such path-breaking findings will be instrumental in rebutting untrue and unproved suppositions leading to apprehensions in the general public;
and would prevent people with vested interests from misleading the general
populace.
The whole
Danish adult population was subdivided into subscribers and non-subscribers of
mobile phones and followed up for incidence of cancer and other diseases. The
detailed study found no evidence of any increased risk of brain or nervous
system tumours / cancer among mobile phone subscribers.
The study
concluded that no increased risk
of cancer due to use of cellphone was found. The extended study also allowed to
investigate effects in people, who had used mobile phones for 10 years or more, and it was found that
even the long term use of cellphone was not associated with higher risks of
cancer. Further no increased risk in Brain Tumor,” which would be the
most plausible tumour location if mobile phone use was a risk.
The study has once
again reinstated the finding of the earlier studies on the topic, where no concrete correlation
between cellphone use and cancer/tumours has been established. Notably, various
studies have found that cancer rates have not risen since cellphones were
introduced.
By Telecomlead.com
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