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Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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  • Yoon-Jung Choi

    (Department of Family Medicine and Center for Cancer Prevention and Detection, Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 10408, Korea
    Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-744, Korea
    Environmental Health Center, College of Medicine,Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea
    Contributed equally to this study as the first author.)

  • Joel M. Moskowitz

    (School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-7358, USA
    Contributed equally to this study as the first author.)

  • Seung-Kwon Myung

    (Department of Family Medicine and Center for Cancer Prevention and Detection, Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang 10408, Korea
    Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, National Cancer Center Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, Goyang 10408, Korea
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Management, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Goyang 10408, Korea)

  • Yi-Ryoung Lee

    (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea)

  • Yun-Chul Hong

    (Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-744, Korea
    Environmental Health Center, College of Medicine,Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea
    Institute of Environmental Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul 03080, Korea)

Abstract

We investigated whether cellular phone use was associated with increased risk of tumors using a meta-analysis of case-control studies. PubMed and EMBASE were searched from inception to July 2018. The primary outcome was the risk of tumors by cellular phone use, which was measured by pooling each odds ratio (OR) and its 95% confidence interval (CI). In a meta-analysis of 46 case-control studies, compared with never or rarely having used a cellular phone, regular use was not associated with tumor risk in the random-effects meta-analysis. However, in the subgroup meta-analysis by research group, there was a statistically significant positive association (harmful effect) in the Hardell et al. studies (OR, 1.15—95% CI, 1.00 to 1.33— n = 10), a statistically significant negative association (beneficial effect) in the INTERPHONE-related studies (case-control studies from 13 countries coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC); (OR, 0.81—95% CI, 0.75 to 0.89— n = 9), and no statistically significant association in other research groups’ studies. Further, cellular phone use with cumulative call time more than 1000 h statistically significantly increased the risk of tumors. This comprehensive meta-analysis of case-control studies found evidence that linked cellular phone use to increased tumor risk.

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  • Yoon-Jung Choi & Joel M. Moskowitz & Seung-Kwon Myung & Yi-Ryoung Lee & Yun-Chul Hong, 2020. "Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-20, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:21:p:8079-:d:439041
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    1. Ming Yang & WenWen Guo & ChunSheng Yang & JianQin Tang & Qian Huang & ShouXin Feng & AiJun Jiang & XiFeng Xu & Guan Jiang, 2017. "Mobile phone use and glioma risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(5), pages 1-13, May.
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    1. Paul Héroux & Igor Belyaev & Kent Chamberlin & Suleyman Dasdag & Alvaro Augusto Almeida De Salles & Claudio Enrique Fernandez Rodriguez & Lennart Hardell & Elizabeth Kelley & Kavindra Kumar Kesari & E, 2023. "Cell Phone Radiation Exposure Limits and Engineering Solutions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(7), pages 1-25, April.
    2. Christopher Brzozek & Michael J. Abramson & Geza Benke & Ken Karipidis, 2021. "Comment on Choi et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17 , 8079," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(10), pages 1-2, May.
    3. Frank de Vocht & Martin Röösli, 2021. "Comment on Choi, Y.-J., et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17 , 8079," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(6), pages 1-4, March.
    4. Joel M. Moskowitz & Seung-Kwon Myung & Yoon-Jung Choi & Yun-Chul Hong, 2021. "Reply to Brzozek et al. Comment on “Choi et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17 , 8079”," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(11), pages 1-3, May.
    5. Seung-Kwon Myung & Joel M. Moskowitz & Yoon-Jung Choi & Yun-Chul Hong, 2021. "Reply to Comment on Choi, Y.-J., et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17 , 8079," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(6), pages 1-5, March.

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