A new study of 5,000 studies from the past 28 years found that cell phones and wireless technologies are not associated with an increased risk of cancer. You may have heard the rumors that electromagnetic radiation from cell phones and wireless technologies can be dangerous to your health. .

However, the radio waves of wireless technologies are very weak. They do not have enough energy to cause damage to human DNA and are highly unlikely to cause cancer. Nevertheless, researchers continue to study whether long-term cell phone use can be dangerous to health.

A new study now proves that the use of mobile phones is not related to the occurrence of cancer. This is the largest relevant study to date, which is added to the already long list of studies that have found that wireless technologies are not harmful to the human body.

“For the main issue, cell phones and brain cancer, we found no increased risk, even for 10+ years of cell phone use, where the user makes the maximum number of calls possible,” said Mark Ellwood of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, one of the authors of the study.

The research, which was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published in Environmental International, analyzed more than 5,000 studies – and none of them found an increased risk of brain cancer due to mobile phone use.

How do cell phones work?

Mobile phones, like wireless technologies in general, work by exchanging signals with radio frequency (RF) waves, which are in the electromagnetic spectrum – hence mobile phones are often said to emit electromagnetic radiation.

Electromagnetic radiation sounds… dangerous. And yet this is not necessarily the case: it depends on how much energy this radiation contains.

The radio frequency waves used by mobile phone networks are a form of non-ionizing radiation. Non-ionizing radiation uses minute amounts of energy to transfer data – at levels far below what would damage the human body or DNA.

Radio waves do not cause cancer

And this applies to all mobile networks. WiFi, 4G, 5G and Bluetooth all depend on radio waves to transfer data, as do FM radio stations. Each species uses a different frequency of radio waves, none of which have enough energy to “burn” body tissues or damage cells or human DNA.

Radio frequency waves are different from ionizing forms of radiation such as X-rays, C-rays, or ultraviolet (UV) rays. Ionizing radiation has much more energy and can actually cause DNA damage, at levels far greater than exposure to the sun for example, which causes skin cancer.

Many still worry that keeping a cell phone in your pocket or leaving your internet router on can be dangerous, but these myths are dispelled with the same reasoning: radio waves do not cause cancer.

When we’re outside and it’s cloudy, we’re exposed to much more DNA-damaging radiation than if we have our cell phone in our pocket.

Many organizations have not taken a clear position

However, several health and scientific organizations have not taken an official position on whether cell phone radio waves can cause cancer.

The problem here is the philosophical perspective of the issue of proving a position. In other words, it is like when someone claims that there is no God, because there is nothing to prove his existence. What if we just haven’t found evidence yet for God’s existence?

The same logic applies to the issue of wireless technologies and whether they can cause cancer. Wireless technologies are a very important part of our lives, so both the healthcare industry and government agencies are still dealing with whether or not they are safe.

In any case, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that the use of mobile phones and wireless technologies poses absolutely no risk to our bodies.

Edited by: Giorgos Passas