The debate that linked brain cancer with the use of mobile phones had ranged on over a long time since the use of mobile phone began to enjoy global acceptance;a recent study has again dismissed the claim saying the use of mobile phones has no link with brain cancer among the users. The report of the study which dismissed earlier reports as mere guess works which were never empirically confirmed added that there is no reason to entertain the fear of developing brain cancers by users of mobile phones. The recently published study confirmed that there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer.The study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark has dismissed the fear that linked the use of mobile phone to brain cancer or any other cancer for that matter. saying such fear was uncalled for. The researchers studied more than 350,000 people using mobile phones over a period of 18-year and the conclusion arrived at indicated that users of mobile phones were at no greater risk than anyone else of developing brain cancer.The findings, published on the British Medical Journal website, came after a series of studies have come to similar conclusions.But some studies which cast doubt on safety of mobile phone users in relation to cancer led the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn that the use of mobile phones could still be carcinogenic.However, WHO has put mobile phones in the same category as coffee, meaning that a link could not be ruled out neither could it be proved .The Department of Health continues to advise that anyone under the age of 16 should use mobile phones only for essential purposes and keep all calls short.These results are the strongest evidence yet that using a mobile phone does not seem to increase the risk of cancers of the brain or central nervous system in adults'The Danish study, which built on previously published researches by carrying out ager follow-up, found there was no significant difference in rates of brain or central nervous system cancers among those who had mobiles and those that did not.Of the 358,403 mobile phone owners studied, 356 gliomas (a type of brain cancer) and 846 cancers of the central nervous system were seen - both in line with incidence rates among those who did not own a mobile.Even among those who had had mobiles the longest - 13 years or more - the rissk was no higher, the researchers concluded.But they still said mobile phone use warrants continued follow up to ensure cancers were not developing over the longer term, and to see what the effect was in children.Hazel Nunn, head of evidence and health information at Cancer Research UK, said: 'These results are the strongest evidence yet that using a mobile phone does not seem to increase the risk of cancers of the brain or central nervous system in adults.'Prof Anders Ahlbom, from Sweden's Karolinska Institute, commended process applied in the conduct of the study, adding the findings were 'reassuring'.Prof David Spiegelhalter, an expert in the understanding of risk, at the University of Cambridge, said: 'The mobile phone records only go up to 1995 and so the comparison is mainly between early and late adopters, but the lack of any effect on brain tumours is still very important evidence.
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