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Synthesis of Epidemiological Studies on Mobile
Phone Use and the Risk of Brain Tumors
Isabelle Deltour and Joachim Schüz
Introduction
Mobile phone technology was introduced in the 1980s, but it became popular in the mid-
1990s. Today, the majority of people worldwide use mobile phones. For communication,
mobile phones emit radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic elds that at high levels of expo-
sure lead to heating of human tissue (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Protection [ICNIRP] 2009). Mobile phone technologies comply with protection guidelines
to prevent biologically relevant heating, but some concerns were expressed when ...