Mobile phone use and glioma risk: comparison of epidemiological study results with incidence trends in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In view of mobile phone exposure being classified as a possible human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), we determined the compatibility of two recent reports of glioma risk (forming the basis of the IARC's classification) with observed incidence trends in the United States.

Design

Comparison of observed rates with projected rates of glioma incidence for 1997-2008. We estimated projected rates by combining relative risks reported in the 2010 Interphone study and a 2011 Swedish study by Hardell and colleagues with rates adjusted for age, registry, and sex; data for mobile phone use; and various latency periods.

Setting

US population based data for glioma incidence in 1992-2008, from 12 registries in the Surveillance, Epidemi

SUBMITTER: Little MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3297541 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature