WHO confirms that mobile phones have no link to brain cancer
Constant exposure to radio waves has been a major concern for scientists studying the supposed link to brain cancer. Mobile phone use could be a risk factor, but the World Health Organization has confirmed that it has no link.
The study, published last September in the journal Environment International, showed that mobile phones, and wireless technology in general, contain a type of non-ionizing radiation that is not harmful to health.
Other devices such as microwaves use X-rays which can cause heating of skin tissue with high use, although the levels of electromagnetic waves are within the limits permitted by the World Health Organization.
Radiation is a possible human carcinogen, but results can often be biased. Epidemiological studies take into account very high exposure to radio waves that cell phones or other devices cannot generate.
Alfredo García, supervisor and nuclear publisher, confirmed in an interview with the website Computer Hoy that “fear usually comes from ignorance, and is based mainly on the scientific lack of culture in an important part of our society and on the interests of the sectors that benefit from it.”
The World Health Organization has been closely following the issue since the first warnings about radiation levels that could be harmful to health were published in 2011. The organization analyzed more than 5,000 studies from the past three decades before denying the danger of mobile phones.
The World Health Organization has found no conclusive data to support the link between cell phone use and brain cancer. Frequent use of devices is not a trigger in humans.
The agency analyzed data from people who had used cell phones extensively for a decade or more, and there was no clear evidence either. The use of wireless technologies has doubled in recent decades, but the number of people with brain cancer has remained the same.