Cellular telephone use and cancer risk: update of a nationwide Danish cohort epidem.

Aim of study (acc. to author)

Further details

Endpoint/type of risk estimation

• leukemia and lymphoma
• brain tumor: acoustic neuromas
• salivary gland tumors, eye tumors, and all other cancers

Exposure

• • mobile communications
  • mobile phone
  • analog mobile phone
  • digital mobile phone
  • GSM
  • NMT
• • personal

Assessment

• list: cellular telephone subscribers of two Danish operating companies including type of phone (analog or digital), date of subscription

Exposure groups

Population

• Group:
  • men
  • women
• Age: ≥ 18 years
• Characteristics: cellular telephone subscribers
• Observation period: January 1982 - December 1995, followed up through December 2002
• Study location: Denmark
• Data source: Danish Cancer Registry
• Exclusion criteria: corporate customers

Study size

Results (acc. to author)

Study funded by

• Danish Cancer Society
• Danish Strategic Research Council, Denmark

Comments on this article

• Söderqvist F et al. (2012): Review of four publications on the Danish cohort study on mobile phone subscribers and risk of brain tumors
• Ahlbom A et al. (2007): Re: Cellular telephone use and cancer risk: update of a nationwide Danish cohort study
• Schüz J et al. (2007): Response: Re: Cellular Telephone Use and Cancer Risk: Update of a Nationwide Danish Cohort Study

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