Mobile phones increase risk of brain cancer

MOBILE phone users could be increasing their chances of developing brain cancer, experts have warned.
Mobile phones increase risk of brain cancer

Scientists for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields associated with mobile handsets potentially increase the risk of glioma, a malignant type of the disease.

Following a week-long IARC meeting in France, 31 scientists from 14 countries classified the fields as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2B).

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