Following 11 years of research, the mobile telecommunications and health research programme (MTHR) has published its final report on the matter. It found that there is no evidence that the use of mobile phones leads to an increased risk of cancer. It also found that there was no evidence that exposure to mobile phone base station emissions during pregnancy affects the risk of developing cancer in early childhood.
The £13.6 million MTHR programme has been jointly funded by the UK government and the telecommunications industry. Throughout its existence, the programme has been overseen by an independent committee to ensure that none of the funding bodies could influence the outcomes of the research.
Despite the findings, Professor Coggon warned that there are still some questions to be answered about the impact of mobile phone use on health. The MTHR has provided funding to set up a new study which will look at long-term mobile phone use. The COSMOS study will follow 100,000 long-term mobile phone users to see if there are any delayed adverse effects linked to mobile phone use.
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