Environmental Health Trust, 6 April 2022
Scientists Dispute “Million Woman” Cell Phone Cancer Study as Flawed
Most women in study used cell phones for under 30 minutes a week. Study did not assess wireless radiation exposures from wireless phones.
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022—A powerful group of scientists, including epidemiologists and physicians and Environmental Health Trust experts, have convened to dispute a study on U.K. women recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that concluded cell phone use did not increase cancer risk. The group asserts that the study of older women – the majority of whom used the cell phone for under 30 minutes a week- provides false safety assurances regarding cell phones and cancer. The scientists are highlighting serious issues in the Oxford study which they say is “fatally flawed and designed in a way that cannot evaluate cell phone cancer risk.” The scientists note that numerous human and animal studies have found associations between cell phone radiation and cancer and they recommend the public reduce exposures to cell phone and other wireless radiation, especially children.
They highlight the inadequate exposure assessment of the Oxford study- how the researchers did not gather data on how many hours the women used a cell phone. The study only surveyed women twice in median years 2001 and 2011, asking if they “never”, “ever” or “daily” used a cell phone. The women were then followed through the U.K National Health Services databases on death and cancer. Women who used the phone once a day were lumped together with women who used the phone for hours a day. When this group of cellphone users was compared to those who reported never using a phone, no statistically significant associations were detected between phone use and brain cancer. Researchers did not gather any data on wireless phone use- another critical source of radiofrequency radiation exposure to the brain.
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https://ehtrust.org/scientists-dispute-million-woman-oxford-cell-phone-cancer-study-as-fatally-flawed/
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022—A powerful group of scientists, including epidemiologists and physicians and Environmental Health Trust experts, have convened to dispute a study on U.K. women recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that concluded cell phone use did not increase cancer risk. The group asserts that the study of older women – the majority of whom used the cell phone for under 30 minutes a week- provides false safety assurances regarding cell phones and cancer. The scientists are highlighting serious issues in the Oxford study which they say is “fatally flawed and designed in a way that cannot evaluate cell phone cancer risk.” The scientists note that numerous human and animal studies have found associations between cell phone radiation and cancer and they recommend the public reduce exposures to cell phone and other wireless radiation, especially children.
They highlight the inadequate exposure assessment of the Oxford study- how the researchers did not gather data on how many hours the women used a cell phone. The study only surveyed women twice in median years 2001 and 2011, asking if they “never”, “ever” or “daily” used a cell phone. The women were then followed through the U.K National Health Services databases on death and cancer. Women who used the phone once a day were lumped together with women who used the phone for hours a day. When this group of cellphone users was compared to those who reported never using a phone, no statistically significant associations were detected between phone use and brain cancer. Researchers did not gather any data on wireless phone use- another critical source of radiofrequency radiation exposure to the brain.
Continue reading:
https://ehtrust.org/scientists-dispute-million-woman-oxford-cell-phone-cancer-study-as-fatally-flawed/
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