Does using a mobile phone cause brain cancer?
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Large studies and population trends have not shown an increase in brain tumours matching the explosion in mobile use. Radiofrequency energy from phones is non-ionising and doesn't damage DNA the way X-rays do. Evidence to date is reassuring.
Brain tumour incidence has stayed broadly flat in national registries over decades of rapidly rising mobile phone use, which argues against a meaningful effect.
There is a better reason to move it: notifications and light fragment sleep, and sleep loss has clearer health consequences than the radiofrequency exposure.
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