ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2009
The controversy about a possible relationship between mobile phone use and cancer.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mobile phones and head tumours. The discrepancies in cause-effect relationships in the epidemiological studies - how do they arise?Environmental health : a global access science source · 2011Pooled it
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- The Critical Importance of Molecular Biomarkers and Imaging in the Study of Electrohypersensitivity. A Scientific Consensus International Report.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Comment on Choi et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Probabilistic Multiple-Bias Modeling Applied to the Canadian Data From the Interphone Study of Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Glioma, Meningioma, Acoustic Neuroma, and Parotid Gland Tumors.American journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- EMF radiations (1800 MHz)-inhibited early seedling growth of maize (Zea mays) involves alterations in starch and sucrose metabolism.Protoplasma · 2016Article
- The use of cell phone and insight into its potential human health impacts.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2016Article
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- International and national expert group evaluations: biological/health effects of radiofrequency fields.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Review
- NMR imaging of cell phone radiation absorption in brain tissue.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Studying the effects of mobile phone waves on electro cardiogram parameters of students in zahedan university of medical sciences.International journal of high risk behaviors & addiction · 2012Article
- Cell phones and glioma risk: a review of the evidence.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2012Review
- Descriptive epidemiology of CNS tumors in France: results from the Gironde Registry for the period 2000-2007.Neuro-oncology · 2011Article
- Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2007, featuring tumors of the brain and other nervous system.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2011Article
- "Dirty electricity": what, where, and should we care?Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2010Review
- Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2010Article
- Mobile phone radiation health risk controversy: the reliability and sufficiency of science behind the safety standards.Health research policy and systems · 2010Article
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Abstract
objectiveDuring the last decade, mobile phone use increased to almost 100% prevalence in many countries of the world. Evidence for potential health hazards accumulated in parallel by epidemiologic investigations has raised controversies about the appropriate interpretation and the degree of bias and confounding responsible for reduced or increased risk estimates. DATA SOURCES: Overall, I identified 33 epidemiologic studies in the peer-reviewed literature, most of which (25) were about brain tumors. Two groups have collected data for >or=10 years of mobile phone use: Hardell and colleagues from Sweden and the Interphone group, an international consortium from 13 countries coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. DATA SYNTHESIS: Combined odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) from these studies for glioma, acoustic neuroma, and meningioma were 1.5 (1.2-1.8); 1.3 (0.95-1.9); and 1.1 (0.8-1.4), respectively.
conclusionsMethodologic considerations revealed that three important conditions for epidemiologic studies to detect an increased risk are not met: a ) no evidence-based exposure metric is available; b) the observed duration of mobile phone use is generally still too low; c) no evidence-based selection of end points among the grossly different types of neoplasias is possible because of lack of etiologic hypotheses. Concerning risk estimates, selection bias, misclassification bias, and effects of the disease on mobile phone use could have reduced estimates, and recall bias may have led to spuriously increased risks. The overall evidence speaks in favor of an increased risk, but its magnitude cannot be assessed at present because of insufficient information on long-term use.
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