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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Science
Natasha May

Mobile phones not linked to brain cancer, biggest study to date finds

People standing in a circle holding their mobile phones
A comprehensive review of the world’s leading scientific studies has found no association between mobile phone use and cancer. Photograph: Kar-Tr/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Mobile phones are not linked to brain and head cancers, a comprehensive review of the highest quality evidence available commissioned by the World Health Organization has found.

Led by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Arpansa), the systematic review examined more than 5,000 studies from which the most scientifically rigorous were identified and weak studies were excluded.

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