Reported health effects near mobile-phone base stations

What this paper brings together

Reviews 38 selected studies of residents near mobile-phone base stations, covering symptoms, cancer and biochemical findings.

The authors’ synthesis or proposal

Balmori reports relevant effects in 28 of 38 selected studies, with findings grouped under symptoms, cancer and biochemical measures, and relates these to other RF-exposure literature.

Reading the connections carefully

Counting studies with effects is not a pooled risk estimate. Exposure characterisation, study selection, confounding and self-report can affect the pattern; proximity alone is not absorbed dose. The review does not establish a base-station cause for an individual illness.

Study records to read alongside

These are topical connections within this library. A link does not mean the review cited this particular paper or independently confirmed its result.

• RF-013 Symptoms associated with measured bedroom fields
• RF-001 Malignant heart tumours after long term exposure
• RF-002 Heart tumours in a separate lifetime rat programme
• RF-014 Heavy phone use categories in CERENAT