Mobile Phone Subscribers Don't Experience Higher Risks for Cancer

Whether mobile phone use is associated with cancer and central nervous system (CNS) tumors is unclear. In the only cohort study to date, mobile phone subscribers did not experience greater risk for any cancer or CNS tumors than nonsubscribers (J Natl Cancer Inst 2006; 98:1707). The same investigators now report long-term follow-up results.

Mobile phone subscriber data were linked with the Danish National Cancer Register. Approximately 3.2 million Danes (age, ≥30) were categorized as subscribers (nearly 360,000 people) or nonsubscribers. Subscribers signed their first contracts between 1982 and 1995. During follow-up (1990–2007), more than 250,000 cancers and nearly 11,000 CNS tumors occurred. After adjustment for multiple factors, subscriber…