Published in Horizon, 20 Nov 2013
Thousands of young people are being interviewed as the EU backs the largest study in the world into the links between mobile phone use and brain cancer in children.
Brain cancer is the most common type of cancer in children, after leukaemia. In the UK alone, some 450 children under the age of 18 are diagnosed with brain tumours every year.
Many people are tempted to blame the spiralling use of mobile phones. A study conducted at the beginning of this decade on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Consumers found that more than two-thirds of people in the EU believe their health is affected to some extent by mobile phone masts and mobile phone handsets. […]
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