Decades ago, doctors ardently debated whether cigarettes had adverse health effects. Nowadays, cell phones are in the spotlight.
In the never-ending battling between experts trying to determine whether or not cell phones do in fact lead to brain cancer, chalk one up for the “no” category in the latest round.
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute just published a study that tested the effects of cell phone usage on children and adolescents. The study included 1,000 people and compared a control group in good health with a control group of people diagnosed with brain tumors.
The result showed that children who started to use cell phones regularly five years ago were at no greater risk than those who had never used them regularly. In a subset of the study, no increased risk of brain tumors was discovered for brain areas receiving the largest amount of exposure.
That’s good news, but it still comes on the heels of a World Health Organization study that determined cell phones are possibly carcinogenic.
With so much money in the cell phone industry, it looks like straight answers regarding the risks will be hard to come by.
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