Advisory Board September 5, 2024
Neither cellphones nor cellphone towers are linked to brain and head cancers, according to a review of 63 studies commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in the journal Environment International.
Tool: Cancer Incidence Estimator
Background
Cellphones emit radio waves, a type of nonionizing radiation that has caused concern that they could be linked to an increased risk of developing cancer.
In 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of WHO, classified radio wave exposure as a possible carcinogen to humans. However, according to Ken Karipidis, lead author of the most recent review and health impact assessment assistant director for the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, said that the observational studies...
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