Receiving grants from industry is by the international committee of medical journal editor regarded as the most important conflicts of interest. Author links open overlay panel the interphone study group 1. Acoustic neuroma risk in relation to mobile telephone use. The effects of recall errors and of selection bias in. In their opinion there was inconsistency between the two case control studies and a lack of an exposureresponse relationship in the interphone study results. The interphone study is an international consortium of case control studies of glioma, meningioma, acoustic neurinoma and parotid gland tumours, with the primary purpose of assessing mobile phone use as a possible risk factor. Mobile phones, brain tumors, and the interphone study. Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use. The study group had knowledge during the full process until statistical analysis if it was a case or a control.
The present combined international analysis of the interphone study is based on the largest number of an cases and, in particular, the largest number of longterm mobile phone users reported to date. Interphone is an international, mainly populationbased, case control study. In contrast, the hardell et al studies used standard methods with questionnaires. International study shows no increased risk of brain tumors from cell phone use interphone, an international collaboration, and the largest study of its kind to date, reported that overall. The interphone study sometimes stylized as interphone was a set of international case control studies conducted with the aim of determining whether mobile phone use increased the risk of certain tumors, namely, glioma, meningioma, and schwannoma. Iarc report to the union for international cancer control. The largest ever international study of mobile phone safety has. Validation of short term recall of mobile phone use for. In this paper, we report the results of analyses on the association between vs and selfreported loud noise exposure. Its methodology has been described in detail elsewhere 38. Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Results of the interphone international casecontrol study.
The international agency for research on cancer iarc classified in may, 2011. Original article mobile phone use and brain tumours in. Estimates of ors tended to be larger in the swedish studies than in the interphone study. Methods selfreported noise exposure was analyzed in 1024 vs cases. The interphone study the interphone study was an international, coordinated interview case control study, investigating the potential effect of mobile phone use on the risk of the two commonest types of brain tumour, glioma and meningioma and, although not yet published, also acoustic neuromas and parotid gland tumours. Interphone was the largest case control study to date investigating risks related to mobile phone use and to other potential risk factors for the tumours of interest and included 2,765 glioma, 2,425 meningioma, 1,121 acoustic neuroma, 109 malignant parotid gland tumour cases and 7,658 controls. Pdf reanalysis of risk for glioma in relation to mobile. Interphone was therefore initiated as an international set of casecontrol studies focussing on four types of tumours in tissues that most. Objective studies of loud noise exposure and vestibular schwannomas vs have shown conflicting results. Interphone is the largest casecontrol study to date investigating risks. Interphone international case control study of tumours of. Furthermore, in the interphone study cases more often than controls.
Interphone international case control study of tumours of the brain and salivary glands, protocol rev. The interphone study was an international, coordinated interview casecontrol study. The international agency for cancer research iarc has coordinated the study. The country interphone study, the largest case control study done to date, looked at cell phone use among more than 5,000 people who developed brain tumors gliomas or meningiomas and a similar group of people without tumors. A few members of the working group considered the current evidence in humans inadequate. Methods study design 30 the interphone study is an international, largely populationbased case control study. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing. Comparison with the results of the interphone international casecontrol study. Scope of the interphone study interphone was therefore initiated in 2000 as an international set of case control studies in countries around the. The rapid increase in mobile telephone use has generated concern about possible health risks of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from these devices. Mobile phones and tumours 2011 mobile phones, brain. National studies, however, might have specific features or a wider scope than the international study e. International commission for nonionizing radiation.
Results of the interphone international case control study. The interphone study, as well as some previous casecontrol studies inskip et al. Sixteen centres in countries used a common core protocol. Interphone was initiated as an international set of case control studies focusing on four types of tumours in tissues that most absorb radiofrequency energy emitted by mobile phones. Media manipulation results of the interphone acoustic. Mobile phone use of 672 volunteers in 11 countries was recorded by operators or through the use of software modified phones, and compared to use recalled six months. The interphone study is an international, largely populationbased case control study. Association of psychosocial risk factors with risk of acute myocardial infarction in 11 119 cases and 648 controls from 52 countries the interheart study. Since 1999, a series of epidemiologic studies of mobile phone use. We conducted a new casecontrol study of brain tumour cases of both. The interphone study sometimes stylized as interphone was a set of international casecontrol studies conducted with the aim of determining whether. Summary interphone study group brain tumours the interphone study is the name given to a series of multinational case control studies to assess whether rf exposure from mobile phones is associated with cancer risk. Results of the interphone international casecontrol study, cancer epidemiology on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips.
The recent article, brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use. Exposure to loud noise and risk of vestibular schwannoma. Interphone was therefore initiated as an international set of case control studies focussing on four types of tumours in tissues that most absorb rf. International agency for research on cancer world health organization interphone international case control study of tumours of the brain and salivary glands protocol, rev. The interphone study section of environment and radiation. Isabelle deltour at international agency for research on cancer. A multinational casecontrol study, interphone, was setup by the international agency for. A case control study of 1105 patients with newly diagnosed acoustic neuroma vestibular schwannoma and 2145 controls was conducted in countries using a common protocol. Reanalysis of risk for glioma in relation to mobile. The potential for recall bias, and other sources of exposure misclassification, as well as the relatively low participation rates in the interphone study, were particularly noted as limitations of these case control studies.
The common core study protocol is described in detail elsewhere. Casecontrol study of the association between malignant brain. Its methodology has been described in detail elsewhere. Interphone, international case control study of tumours,of the brain and salivary glands, protocol, rev. The interphone study was an international, coordinated interview case control study investigating the potential effect of mobile phone use on the risk of the two most common types of brain tumor, glioma and meningioma and, although not yet published, also acoustic neuromas and parotid gland tumors. To validate short term recall of mobile phone use within interphone, an international collaborative case control study of tumours of the brain, acoustic nerve, and salivary glands related to mobile telephone use. International study interphone international agency for research on cancer the interphone study, a series of multinational case control studies setup to determine whether mobile telephone use increases the risk of cancer and, specifically, whether the.
Elisabeth cardis and monique kilkenny international agency for research on cancer lyon, 2001 iarc internal report 01002. Read acoustic neuroma risk in relation to mobile telephone use. Interphone study reports on mobile phone use and brain. Several case control and registrybased cohort studies have found little evidence to support such an association. Interphone was therefore initiated in 2000 as an international set of casecontrol studies in countries around the world2 focusing on four types. International emf project iac meeting, geneva, june 2005. In contrast to the hardell group studies, interphone did not assess or. Pdf mobile phones, brain tumors, and the interphone study. Interphone is the product line dedicated to bikers and was founded to communicate in motion and to make the travel experience more. Reanalysis of risk for glioma in relation to mobile telephone use. Scandinavian journal of work, environment and health.
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