It’s April Fools’ day. However… in the cancer front, there’s no fool or fooling. Definitely, these aren’t for fools:

Brain cancer fears over heavy mobile phone use

Study: One Sausage Per Day Increases Bowel Cancer Risk by a Fifth

Fasting could help fight cancer

Hope over Tasmanian Devil cancer

Hey…easy on the practical jokes, okay? And don’t be so gullible yourself! He he he.

There is no clear connection between mobile phone use and malignant brain tumors -gliomas.

Such were the result of a study conducted in five Northern European countries, appearing in the January 19 online version of the International Journal of Cancer.

• Regular use of a mobile phone, duration of use, or the cumulative number of calls had no effect on the risk.
• The only indication of a potential effect was found among mobile phone users who had used a mobile phone for at least 10 years. They were found to have a slightly increased risk of a tumour on the side of the head on which they held the phone.

Anssi Auvinen, Research Professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority:

“Even though the results do not indicate that mobile phone use increases the risk of cancer, we need more research data on long-term use.”

I’m not sure if I should be worried or not. But I guess we have to keep note that it’s not mobile phone use alone that would contribute to the development of brain cancers.

Read the full report from STUK/ Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland.