Logroño, (EFE).- A study by the Spanish Network of Cancer Registries does not observe a correlation between the use of mobile phones and brain cancer and adds that there is an upward trend in the incidence of this type of tumor in 80s of the 20th century, compatible with the period of improvements in diagnostic techniques; and then stabilizes.
It also indicates that the possible existence of a weak correlation cannot be ruled out or that a longer period of analysis is needed to be able to establish a possible correlation.
These are some of the results of this study on trends in the incidence of central nervous system tumors between 1985 and 2015, in order to establish a hypothesis about the possible influence of improved diagnostic methods and the increase in the use of mobile phones, the La Rioja government detailed this Monday in a note.
The results of the study, in which the La Rioja Cancer Registry has participated, show that, in adult men, the incidence rates of malignant brain tumors remained stable between 1985 and 2015.
For women, they increased by around 2% per year until 1999 and then remained stable until 2015.
Childhood tumors do not present a statistically significant trend either globally or in any of the tumor types studied.
When analyzing the tumor types, an increase in gliomas and embryonal tumors is observed from 1985 to 1991, “very probably also as a consequence of the diagnostic improvements implemented in these years”.
This research recommends continuing to monitor the trends of these brain tumors to detect a possible increase in incidence that could lead to suspicion of their relationship with possible environmental factors, including, among them, the increased use of mobile phones in recent years. decades. EFE