The use of mobile phones does not cause an increase in brain cancer in Australia, says a new study led by the University in the capital.
Researchers claim, although the mobile phone uptake in Australia during the last twenty-nine years of increases, communication devices, which emit magnetic radiation, not associated with the incidence of cancer to the brain.
Increased brain cancer incidence rates in Australia since the introduction of cell phones twenty-nine years ago, but contrary to the claims of American medical scientist Devra Davis, whose visit to Sydney in November. The use of mobile phones has increased to ninety four percent since 1987, since the phone was created in Australia.
For this study, analysis of the trend of using cell phones as compared with national cancer data, showed 858 men and 14,222 women aged 20-84 were diagnosed with brain cancer between 1982 and 2012.
"The incidence of brain cancer between 1982 and 2013 did not increase in any cluster ages except those aged 70-84," the researchers said.
Researchers claim the incidence of cancer, for the most part, flatlined during the study period.
The increase in incidence among the older group is derived from the possible additional approximately double the accuracy of detection.
"The hike starts before phones are even available in Australia. This is almost certainly traceable to the increase in additional advanced diagnostic technique Australia," Simon Chapman, leader of the study and Emeritus Prof. of Public Health at the University of Sydney
He said the study take in enormous amounts and used only in the information publicly accessible.
"It's not as if we have some clusters of very small study with 100 or thousands of cases in it."
Other studies have drawn a relationship between a rare form of brain cancer and cell phone users under the age of twenty. (source)