Using a mobile phone does not increase your risk of brain cancer, according to a new Japanese study that is the first to consider the effects of radiation on different parts of the brain, Reuters news service reports.
That is good news for many of us who rely on them quite a lot.
Scientists at Tokyo Women's Medical University compared phone use in 322 brain cancer patients with 683 healthy people and found that regularly using a mobile did not significantly affect the likelihood of getting brain cancer.
"We found no association between mobile phone use and cancer, providing more evidence to suggest they don't cause brain cancer," says Naohito Yamaguchi, research team leader. The findings are published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Japanese Study: Mobile Phones Don't Cause Cancer
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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