May 5, 2018 08:02 PM
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/no-a-st...in-cancer/
EXCERPT: Yet another study claiming to show a connection between cancer and mobile phones—this time from the UK—is making the rounds. But plenty of scientists are saying the new paper is misleading.
[...] one particular type of brain tumour, known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), seemingly did become more common in England over that time.[...] This increase in GBMs, the most common and often most aggressive type of brain cancer, had likely been masked by the relative decrease of other brain cancers, they added.
The study’s findings, published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, can’t offer any explanation about why the rate of GBMs increased. But that didn’t stop the researchers from speculating. [...] “The paper itself is not about cellphones; it’s just about this change in the tumours ... but cellphones seem like really they’re the most likely cause,” lead author Alasdair Philips, a trustee of the charity Children with Cancer UK, told CNN.
The findings do mirror some similar results in the US, which found that certain GBMs have truly become more common (but other studies have found the opposite). But many scientists have since noted there’s nothing particularly new that this UK study brings to the table, and certainly nothing that would settle the contentious debate surrounding cellphones....
MORE: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/no-a-st...in-cancer/
EXCERPT: Yet another study claiming to show a connection between cancer and mobile phones—this time from the UK—is making the rounds. But plenty of scientists are saying the new paper is misleading.
[...] one particular type of brain tumour, known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), seemingly did become more common in England over that time.[...] This increase in GBMs, the most common and often most aggressive type of brain cancer, had likely been masked by the relative decrease of other brain cancers, they added.
The study’s findings, published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, can’t offer any explanation about why the rate of GBMs increased. But that didn’t stop the researchers from speculating. [...] “The paper itself is not about cellphones; it’s just about this change in the tumours ... but cellphones seem like really they’re the most likely cause,” lead author Alasdair Philips, a trustee of the charity Children with Cancer UK, told CNN.
The findings do mirror some similar results in the US, which found that certain GBMs have truly become more common (but other studies have found the opposite). But many scientists have since noted there’s nothing particularly new that this UK study brings to the table, and certainly nothing that would settle the contentious debate surrounding cellphones....
MORE: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/no-a-st...in-cancer/