For decades, health professionals have tried to qualify whether mobile phones are likely to cause cancer. On Thursday, the Federal Agency published the final results of this, in fact that experts call the largest and most expensive experience in the world. The study, initiated by the Clinton administration, turned out to $ 30 million and affected within 3000 mice.

Experience done by State toxicology programme, found flattering, but a relatively modest confirmation of this, the fact that the radio waves from some types of mobile phone sets have all the chances to increase the risk of becoming brain cancer in rats-males.

” We believe in fact that the Association between radiofrequency radiation and cancer in male rats is real," said John Bucher, senior research worker of the State of the toxicology program.

But he warned the fact that the value effect and the duration was much more than what people typically encounter, and, this way, you don't have a chance “to catch up with the action that people feel."In addition to this, the rat study investigated the effects of radio frequency associated with the early generation of mobile phone technology, which fell out of simple use for a number of years back. Thus, all sorts of difficulties arising in connection with the study, as seen, are key to the early followers who took advantage of these departed device, and not to the users of today's models.

That is not the least, in the opinion of professionals, including a small demonstrated rise in cancer risk has the ability to own broad results, taking into account the fact that billions of people now use mobile phones.

The lowest level of radiation in the Federal study was equal to the greatest impact that Federal criteria allow for users of mobile phones. This degree of influence is occasionally faced with the usual use of a mobile phone, said the Agency of toxicology. The highest degree was 4 times higher than the maximum allowed.

The Toxicological program published a preparatory plan for the results of the study in may 2016, saying that radiation "probably caused" brain tumors. In February of this year, in terms of the report, she supported this relatively confident conclusion.

However, in March, an expert group of 11 professionals from the industry and academia voted to advise the Agency to increase the degree of trust from “ambiguous evidence” to “some evidence” of the connection between the radiation of the cell phone and brain tumors in male rats. (Female rats have shown no evidence of a link between radiation and these tumors.) 2 members of the group, Lydia Andrews-Jones of Allergan and Susan Felter of Procter & Gamble, offered to renew the risk.

Experts talk actually that it is not extremely for pictures of cancer to change between the sexes as in humans, for example, and in animals, covering mice and rats studying.

Mice in research works were exposed to 9 hours a day in the direction of 2 years-much longer than including languid users of mobile phones. For rats, the irradiation is started before birth and continued as long as they are not filled within 2 years.

In 2-3% of male rats exposed to radiation, malignant gliomas developed-fatal brain cancer, while in the control group, which did not receive the slightest radiation, they were not. Almost all epidemiologists do not contemplate a joint rise in the incidence of gliomas in the human population.

The study also demonstrated that 5 to 7 % of male rats exposed to the highest radiation values developed specific heart tumors, called malignant schwannomas, compared to none in the control group. Malignant schwannomas are like acoustic neuromas, benign tumors that have all the chances to develop in people, in the nerve connecting the ear to the brain.

Rats were exposed to radiation at 900 MHz — the usual for the 2nd generation of mobile phones, which prevailed in the 1990s, when the study was first planned.

Today's mobile phones assume a 4th generation, familiar as 4G, and it is assumed that the actual 5g phones will debut within 2020. They use much more of the highest frequency, and these radio waves are much less successful in invading the bodies of humans and rats, talk scientists.

In June, at a meeting of scientific consultants of the toxicology Agency, Donald stump, once of the members, expressed concern that the study " will be vulnerable to criticism, in fact that it was conducted with the introduction of archaic technologies."The challenge, he added, is how to go forward with experiences that are quite large, in order to be important, but quite agile, in order to keep up with the rapidly developing devices.

 

Agency toxicology builds smallest camcorder of influence, which will allow him to regard modern technologies, through weeks or months, not years. These future studies must focus on measurable bodily symptoms or biomarkers of the likely effects of radio frequency radiation, encompassing DNA damage that has the potential to be found well before cancer.

During a phone briefing on Wednesday, a senior researcher at the toxicology Agency, Booker, said that the actual confirmation of DNA damage from the current study need further research.

He said that the joint results of the study-384 pages dedicated to rats, 260 mice-were transferred to the Federal Commission for communication and Management for the control of products and medicines that regulate mobile phones and consider all kinds of dangers to human health. Booker repeatedly did not want to regard the threat.

In a statement, the Director of the center for instrumentation and radiological well-being of the FDA said, in fact, that he did not agree with the Agency's conclusion about “clear evidence” for schwannoma's heart, but did not raise questions about his citation of “some evidence” for brain tumors.

Answering the question about their personal use of mobile telephone, Bucher said, the fact that he never was weary user, but, in light of the study now “slightly more knowledgeable” about its use. According to his texts, at long calls he tried to apply earphones or to find other methods “to increase distance” between the mobile phone and its trunk in coordination with councils of buyers on how to lower their influence.