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Is Cell Phone Use Linked to Brain Tumours?

By Dr. Arun Oommen
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Is Cell Phone Use Linked to Brain Tumours?

Cell phone radiation and brain tumour risk has been studied for over two decades, and the short answer is that current large-scale evidence does not show a clear causal link. Mobile phones emit radiofrequency (RF) energy, a form of non-ionizing radiation, which does not carry enough energy to directly damage DNA the way ionizing radiation (like X-rays) does.

Dr. Arun Oommen

Dr Arun Oommen is the consultant neurosurgeon at VPS Lakeshore Hospital and Research Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India. After his super specialty training and fellowship training in Neuro endoscopy, he has worked in various super specialty centres before joining Lakeshore hospital. He is an expert in handling various neurosurgical cases and has vast surgical experience in areas like Neuro Oncology, Neuro Trauma and Neuro critical care, Neuro Navigation, Steriotaxic Neurosurgery, Neuro endoscopy, and spine problems including Spine instrumentation. He is the editor cum advisor of Medcrave online journal of Neurology and stroke. He is also the editor of the Open access journal of neurology and Neurosurgery .