Advisory Group recommendations on priorities for the IARC Monographs during 2025–2029
iarc.who.int, 4 November 2024
Report of the Advisory Group to Recommend Priorities for the IARC Monographs during 2025–2029 (pp. 171-173)
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields including wireless mobile radiation
Current IARC/WHO classification
Radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) radiation (including from wireless mobile telephones) has been previously classified by IARC as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B) in IARC Monographs Volume 102 in 2011 (IARC, 2013a), based on limited evidence in humans for glioma and acoustic neuroma. RF-EMF was given a priority rating of high by the Advisory Group to Recommend Priorities for the IARC Monographs during 2020–2024 (IARC, 2019a), on the basis of new cancer bioassay evidence in two independent studies (described below).
iarc.who.int, 4 November 2024
Report of the Advisory Group to Recommend Priorities for the IARC Monographs during 2025–2029 (pp. 171-173)
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields including wireless mobile radiation
Current IARC/WHO classification
Radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) radiation (including from wireless mobile telephones) has been previously classified by IARC as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B) in IARC Monographs Volume 102 in 2011 (IARC, 2013a), based on limited evidence in humans for glioma and acoustic neuroma. RF-EMF was given a priority rating of high by the Advisory Group to Recommend Priorities for the IARC Monographs during 2020–2024 (IARC, 2019a), on the basis of new cancer bioassay evidence in two independent studies (described below).
WHO is undertaking a health risk assessment of RF-EMF for a variety of outcomes, including cancer. This will be published as a monograph in the Environmental Health Criteria series and is based on several, currently ongoing, systematic reviews commissioned by WHO (Lagorio et al., 2021; Mevissen et al., 2022).




