WHO warns that the relationship between mobile phone use and cancer should be under surveillance

WHO and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified the radio frequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B) based on an increased risk of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1 associated with wireless phone use.

Dr Jonathan Samet (University of Southern California, USA), overall Chairman of the Working Group, indicated that "the evidence, while still accumulating, is strong enough to support a conclusion and the 2B classification. The conclusion means that there could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link between cell phones and cancer risk."

According to CREAL coordinator of Radiation program and the Head of Radiation Group in WHO, Dr. Elisabeth Cardis, "the IARC monograph evaluation was based on a critical evaluation by an international panel of experts of hundreds of scientific publications covering epidemiological studies, laboratory studies and mechanisms. Though we could not conclude definitively, we judged that enough studies suggest increases in risk among long term or heavy users to conclude that radiofrequency radiation are possibly carcinogenic".

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