ArticleBritish journal of cancer2019
Personal radio use and cancer risks among 48,518 British police officers and staff from the Airwave Health Monitoring Study.
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- Personal radio use and risk of cancers among police officers in Great Britain: Results from the airwave health monitoring study.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Development of standard job classification codes for building a job-exposure matrix for police officers.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Occupational exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and brain tumor risk: Application of the INTEROCC job-exposure matrix.International journal of cancer · 2025Article
- Associations of Systematic Inflammatory Markers with Diet Quality, Blood Pressure, and Obesity in the AIRWAVE Health Monitoring Study.Journal of inflammation research · 2024Article
- Using large and complex datasets for small-area environment-health studies: from theory to practice.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundRadiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) from mobile phones have been classified as potentially carcinogenic. No study has investigated use of Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), a source of RF-EMF with wide occupational use, and cancer risks.
methodsWe investigated association of monthly personal radio use and risk of cancer using Cox proportional hazards regression among 48,518 police officers and staff of the Airwave Health Monitoring Study in Great Britain.
resultsDuring median follow-up of 5.9 years, 716 incident cancer cases were identified. Among users, the median of the average monthly duration of use in the year prior to enrolment was 30.5 min (inter-quartile range 8.1, 68.1). Overall, there was no association between personal radio use and risk of all cancers (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.98, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.93, 1.03). For head and neck cancers HR = 0.72 (95% CI: 0.30, 1.70) among personal radio users vs non-users, and among users it was 1.06 (95% CI: 0.91, 1.23) per doubling of minutes of personal radio use.
conclusionsWith the limited follow-up to date, we found no evidence of association of personal radio use with cancer risk. Continued follow-up of the cohort is warranted.
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