The largest
study, conducted by British scientists amid 7,000 children and patterns of
early childhood cancers across Britain, defined that living close to a cell
phone mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman's baby developing
cancer.
The research also found that those who developed cancer before the age of five were no more likely to have been born close to a mast than their peers.
Use of cell phones has increased significantly over the recent years. That’s why the questions about possible health effects, including whether they may be linked to brain tumors or other cancers have arisen.
According to the words of Paul Elliot, director of the center for environment and health at Imperial College London, who worked on the study published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday, the researchers found no pattern to suggest that the children of mums living near a base station during pregnancy had a greater risk of developing cancer than those who lived elsewhere.
However, some polls have also reflected high levels of public concern about the potential risks of living near mobile phone mast.
But Elliot claimed his work would add to a body of scientific research which has found no links between cell phones and cancer.
Experts who studied almost 13,000 cell phone users over 10 year hoping to find out whether the mobile phones cause brain tumors published the results of their research last month and found no clear answer. Nevertheless, many previous studies have failed to find any links.
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