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The mobile users can experience an increased risk of brain cancer and had to use the SMS and free-hand to reduce exposure, cancer experts say the World Health Organization.

Radio frequency electromagnetic fields generated by mobile devices “probably carcinogenic to humans,” announced the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the end of an eight-day meeting in Lyon, France. Experts “to achieve this classification based on a review of human evidence comes from epidemiological studies” point to an increased incidence of glioma, a type of malignant brain cancer, said Jonathan Samet, president of the working group. Some individuals are tracked in the study had used their phones for an average of 30 minutes per day over a period of 10 years. There are about five billion mobile phones registered in the world. The number of mobile phones and the average time spent using them have both risen steadily in recent years.

CTIA-Wireless Association dismissed reports that said the UN “did numerous reviews and in the past have given the same score, eg, pickled vegetables and coffee.” This classification “does not mean that cell phones cause cancer,” said the industry association said in a statement, noting that “limited evidence from statistical studies can be found even if the bias and lack of other data can be the basis for the results.” The IARC warned that current scientific evidence shows only a possible, not proven, between wireless devices and cancer. “There is some evidence of increased risk of glioma” and other forms of non-malignant tumor called acoustic neuroma, says Kurt Straif, scientist in charge of editing the IARC report on the potential carcinogenic agents.

“But it’s not as clearly established that the use of mobile phones are not in fact cause cancer in humans,” he said. The IARC has not issued an official recommendation, but experts pointed to a number of ways consumers can reduce the risk. “What may require some exposure to the highest is to use your phone for voice calls,” said Straif. “If you use it for texting, or as a set of hands-free for voice calls, is clearly lower the exposure by at least an order of magnitude,” or with a ten-fold, he said.

A year ago IARC concluded that there was no link between cell phones and brain cancer, but that was criticized because previous reports based on data that came out of the new tanggal.Tinjauan, conducted by a panel of 31 scientists from 14 countries, achieved on the basis of a “full consensus,” said Robert Baan, who is responsible for the written report, not yet released. “This is the first scientific evaluation of all published literature on the topic associated with an increased risk of cancer,” he said.

But the panel stressed the need for further research, pointing to data that are incomplete, evolving technologies and changing consumer habits. “There is an increase in technology in terms of low emissions but at the same time we see increased usage, so it is difficult to know how to balance the two out, “said Baan.Para IARC ranking as an element of potentially cancer-causing carcinogens, may be carcinogenic, possibly carcinogenic or” probably not carcinogenic “. It can also determine that the material was “not classified”.

Smoking, sunbeds and asbestos, for example, fell “Group 1?, now joined atas.Ponsel threat category of glass wool and waste of gasoline in Group 2B as “possibly carcinogenic”. The industry reacted cautiously, pointing to other common consumer goods – including coffee and pickled vegetables in the chemicals – which are included in the same category. “In France, health services that are already applying a precautionary approach to mobile phones because they think that no harm has been established, that doubts remain and, thus, that more research information is needed, “said French Federation of Telecoms in a statement.

Some consumer advocacy groups said the new classification is too late. “As of today, no one can say there is no risk, and now everyone – politicians, telecommunications, business, consumers and parents – should consider this,” said Janine Le Calvez, head PRIARTEM, consumer advocacy group concerned with the safety of mobile phones.