MTHR - Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

The principal route for disseminating the findings from any scientific study is by publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Papers submitted to journals undergo a rigorous process of review by anonymous external referees who are experts in their fields. Journal editors will only accept papers for publication when they are satisfied that all issues raised by the external reviewers have been adequately addressed by the authors and that the work is of sufficient quality to merit publication. The MTHR Programme Management Committee (PMC) strongly encourages Principal Investigators to publish their research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals at the earliest opportunity. This page lists the publications that have resulted from work funded under the Programme.

Once work has been fully published in the scientific literature full Final Reports are published elsewhere on this web site.

Epidemiology

Cardis E, Deltour I, Vrijheid M, Combalot E, Moissonnier M, Tardy H, Armstrong B, Giles G, Brown J, Siemiatycki J, Parent ME, Nadon L, Krewski D, McBride ML, Johansen C, Collatz Christensen H, Auvinen A, Kurttio P, Lahkola A, Salminen T, Hours M, Bernard M, Montestruq L, Schüz J, Berg-Beckhoff G, Schlehofer B, Blettner M, Sadetzki S, Chetrit A, Jarus-Hakak A, Lagorio S, Iavarone I, Takebayashi T, Yamaguchi N, Woodward A, Cook A, Pearce N, Tynes T, Blaasaas KG, Klaeboe L, Feychting M, Lönn S, Ahlbom A, McKinney PA, Hepworth SJ, Muir KR, Swerdlow AJ, Schoemaker MJ (2010). Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case-control study. Int J Epidemiol, 39(3), 675-94. Link to abstract.

Cardis E, Richardson L, Deltour I, Armstrong B, Feychting M, Johansen C, Kilkenny M, McKinney P, Modan BSadetzki S, Schüz J, Swerdlow A, Vrijheid M, Auvinen A, Berg G, Blettner M, Bowman J, Brown J, Chetrit A, Collatz Christensen H, Cook A, Hepworth S, Giles G, Hours M, Iavarone I, Jarus Hakak A, Klaeboe L, Krewski D, Susanna Lagorio S, Lönn S, Mann S, McBride M, Muir K, Nadon L, Parent M-E, Pearce N, Salminen T, Schoemaker M, Schlehofer B, Siemiatycki J, Taki M, Takebayashi T, Tynes T, van Tongeren M, Vecchia P, Wiart J, Woodward A and Yamaguchi N (2007). The INTERPHONE Study: Design, Epidemiological Methods, and Description of the Study Population. Eur J Epidemiol, 22(9), 647-64. Link to abstract.

Cooke R, Laing S, Swerdlow AJ (2010). A case-control study of risk of leukaemia in relation to mobile phone use. Br J Cancer, 103(11), 1729-35. Link to abstract.

Elliott P, Toledano MB, Bennett J, Beale L, de Hoogh K, Best N, and Briggs DJ (2010). Mobile phone base stations and early childhood cancers: case-control study. British Medical Journal, 340, c3077 E-publication in advance of print [doi: 10.1136/bmj.c3077]. Link to open access paper.

Hepworth SJ, Schoemaker MJ, Muir KR, Swerdlow AJ, van Tongeren M, and McKinney PA. (2006). Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: a UK case-control study. British Medical Journal, 332, 883-886. Link to open access paper.

Hillert L, Ahlbom A, Neasham D, Feychting M, Jarup L, Navin R, Elliott P (2006). Call-related factors influencing output power from mobile phones. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol, 16(6), 507-514. Link to abstract.

Lahkola A, Auvinen A, Salminen T, Raitanen J, Schoemaker MJ, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Lonn S, Swerdlow AJ, and Tynes T (2007). Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in five North European contries. Int J Cancer, 120(8), 1769-1775. Link to abstract.

Lahkola A, Salminen T, Raitanen J, Heinävaara S, Schoemaker MJ, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Johansen C, Klæboe L, Lönn S, Tynes T, and Auvinen A (2008). Meningioma and mobile phone use - a collaborative case-control study in five North European contries. Int J Epidemiol, 37(6), 1304-13. Link to open access paper.

Larjavaara S, Schüz J, Swerdlow A, Feychting M, Johansen C, Lagorio S, Tynes T, Klaeboe L, Tonjer SR, Blettner M, Berg-Beckhoff G, Schlehofer B, Schoemaker M, Britton J, Mäntylä R, Lönn S, Ahlbom A, Flodmark O, Lilja A, Martini S, Rastelli E, Vidiri A, Kähärä V, Raitanen J, Heinävaara S, Auvinen A (2011). Location of Gliomas in Relation to Mobile Telephone Use: A Case-Case and Case-Specular Analysis. Am J Epidemiol, [Epub ahead of print] Link to abstract.

Parslow RC, Hepworth SJ, and McKinney PA, (2003). Recall of past use of mobile phone handsets. Radiat Prot Dosim, 106(3), 233-40. Link to abstract.

Schoemaker MJ and Swerdlow AJ (2009). Risk of pituitary tumours in cellular phone users: a case-control study. Epidemiology, 20(3), 348-54. Link to abstract.

Schoemaker MJ, Swerdlow AJ, Ahlbom A, Auvinen A, Blaasaas KG, Cardis E, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Hepworth SJ, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Lonn S, McKinney PA, Muir K, Raitanen J, Salminen T, Thomsen J, and Tynes T (2005). Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries. Br J Cancer, 93(7), 842-848. Link to open access paper.

Schüz J, Elliott P, Auvinen A, Kromhout H, Poulsen AH, Johansen C, Olsen JH, Hillert L, Feychting M, Fremling K, Toledano M, Heinävaara S, Slottje P, Vermeulen R, and Ahlbom A (2010). An international prospective cohort study of mobile phone users and health (Cosmos): Design considerations and enrolment. Cancer Epidemiol, E-publication in advance of print. Link to abstract.

Vrijheid M, Cardis E, Armstrong BK, Auvinen A, Berg G, Blaasaas KG, Brown J, Carroll M, Chetrit A, Christensen HC, Deltour I, Feychting M, Giles GG, Hepworth SJ, Hours M, Lavarone I, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Kurttio P, Lagorio S, Lonn S, McKinney PA, Montestrucq L, Parslow RC, Richardson L, Sadetzki S, Salminen T, Schuz J, Tynes T, Woodward A, the Interphone Study Group (2006). Validation of short term recall of mobile phone use for the Interphone study. Occup Environ Med, 63(4), 237-43. Link to open access paper.

Vrijheid M, Mann S, Vecchia P, Wiart J, Taki M, Ardoino L, Armstrong BK, Auvinen A, Bédard D, Berg-Beckhoff G, Brown J, Chetrit A, Collatz-Christensen H, Combalot E, Cook A, Deltour I, Feychting M, Giles GG, Hepworth SJ, Hours M, Iavarone I, Johansen C, Krewski D, Kurttio P, Lagorio S, Lönn S, McBride M, Montestrucq L, Parslow RC, Sadetzki S, Schüz J, Tynes T, Woodward A, Cardis E (2009). Determinants of mobile phone output power in a multinational study: implications for exposure assessment. Occup Environ Med, 66(10), 664-71. Link to abstract.

Volunteer

Bamiou D-E, Ceranic B, Cox R, Watt H, Chadwick P and Luxon LM (2007). Mobile telephone use effects on labyrinthine function: a case-control study. Bioelectromagnetics, 29(2), 108-17. Link to abstract.

Barker AT, Jackson PR, Parry H, Coulton LA, Cook GG and Wood SM (2007). The effect of GSM and TETRA mobile handset signals on blood pressure, catechol levels and heart rate variability. Bioelectromagnetics, 28(6), 433-8. Link to abstract.

Barnett J. Timotijevic L, Shepherd R and Senior V (2007). Public responses to precautionary information from the Department of Health (UK) about possible health risks from mobile phones. Health Policy, 82(2), 240-205. Link to abstract.

Barnett, J, Timotijevic L, Vassallo M and Shepherd R (2008). Precautionary Advice about Mobile Phones: Public Understandings and Intended Responses. Journal of Risk Research, 11(4), 525-540.

Cinel C, Boldini A, Fox E and Russo R (2008). Does the use of mobile phones affect human short-term memory or attention? Applied Cognitive Psychology, E-publication in advance of print doi: 10.1002/acp.1425.

Cinel C, Boldini A, Russo R and Fox E (2007). Effects of mobile phone electromagnetic fields on an auditory order threshold task. Bioelectromagnetics, 28(6), 493-6. Link to abstract.

Cinel C, Russo R, Boldini A, and Fox E (2008). Exposure to mobile phone electromagnetic fields and subjective symptoms: a double-blind study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70 (3), 345-348. Link to abstract.

Eltiti S, Wallace D, Ridgewell A, Zougkou K, Russo R, Sepulveda F, Mirshekar-Syahkal D, Rasor P, Deeble R and Fox E (2007). Does short-term exposure to mobile phone base station signals increase symptoms in individuals who report sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? A double-blind randomised provocation study. Environ Health Perspect, 115(11), 1603-1608. Link to open access paper.

Eltiti S, Wallace D, Ridgewell A, Zougkou K, Russo R, Sepulveda F, Fox E (2009). Short-term exposure to mobile phone base station signals does not affect cognitive functioning or physiological measures in individuals who report sensitivity to electromagnetic fields and controls. Bioelectromagnetics, 30(7), 556-63.

Link to abstract.

Eltiti S, Wallace D, Zougkou K, Russo R, Joseph S, Rasor P and Fox E (2007). Development and evaluation of the electromagnetic hypersensitivity questionnaire. Bioelectromagnetics, 28(2), 137-151. Link to abstract.

Nieto-Hernandez R, Rubin GJ, Cleare AJ, Weinman JA, and Wessely S (2008). Can evidence change belief? Reported mobile phone sensitivity following individual feedback of an inability to discriminate active from sham signals. J Psychosomatic Research, 65(5), 453-60. Link to abstract.

Nieto-Hernandez R, Williams J, Cleare AJ, Landau S, Wessely S, and Rubin GJ (2011). Can exposure to a terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA)-like signal cause symptoms? A randomised double-blind provocation study. Occup Environ Med, 65(5), 453-60. Link to abstract.

Rubin GJ, Cleare AJ and Wessely S (2008). Pychological factors associated with self-reported sensistivity to mobile phones. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64(1), 1-9. Link to abstract.

Rubin GJ, Das Munshi J and Wessely S (2005). Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: A systematic review of provocation studies. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67(2), 224-232. Link to open access paper.

Rubin GJ, Das-Munshi J and Wessely S (2006). A systematic review of treatments for electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75(1), 12-18. Link to abstract.

Rubin, GJ, Hahn, G, Everitt, B S, Cleare, A J and Wessely, S (2006). Are some people sensitive to mobile phone signals? Within participants double blind randomised provocation study. British Medical Journal, 332(7526), 886-91. Link to open access paper.

Rubin G J, Nieto-Hernandez R and Wessely S (2009). Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (formerly 'Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity'): An updated systematic review of provocation studies. Bioelectromagnetics, 31(1), 1-11. Link to abstract.

Russso R, Fox E, Cinel C, Boldini A, Defeyeter M, Mirshekar D and Mehta A (2006). Does acute exposure to mobile phones affect human attention? Bioelectromagnetics, 27(3), 215-220. Link to abstract.

Timotijevic L and Barnett J (2006) Managing the Possible Health Risks of Mobile Telecommunications: Public Understandings of Precautionary Action and Advice, Health, Risk and Society, 8(2), 143-164.

Wallace D, Eltiti S, Ridgewell A, Garner K, Russo R, Sepulveda F, Walker S, Quinlan T, Dudley S, Maung S, Deeble R, and Fox E (2010). Do TETRA (Airwave) base station signals have a short-term impact on health and well-being? A randomized double-blind provocation study. Environ Health Perspect, 118(6), 735-41. Link to open access paper

Mechanisms

Davis CC and Balzano Q (2010). The brain is not a radio receiver for wireless phone signals: human tissue does not demodulate a modulated radiofrequency carrier. Comptes Rendus Physique E-publication in advance of print [DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2010.09.002].

Dawe AS, Bodhicharla RK, Graham NS, May ST, Reader T, Loader B, Gregory A, Swicord M, Bit-Babik G, and de Pomerai DI (2009). Low-intensity microwave irradiation does not substantially alter gene expression in late larval and adult Caenorhabditis elegans. Bioelctromagnetics, 30(8), 602-612. Link to abstract.

Dawe AS, Nylund R, Leszczynski D, Kuster N, Reader T, and de Pomerai D (2008). Continuous wave and simulated GSM exposure at 1.8 W/kg and 1.8 GHz do not induce hsp16-1 heat-shock gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. Bioelectromagnetics, 29, 92-99. Link to abstract.

Dawe AS, Smith B, Thomas DWP, Greedy S, Vasic N, Gregory A, Loader B and de Pomerai D (2006). A small temperature rise may contribute towards the apparent induction by microwaves of heat-shock gene expression in the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. Bioelectromagnetics, 27(2), 88-97. Link to abstract .

Kowalczuk C, Yarwood G, Blackwell R, Priestner M, Sienkiewicz Z, Bouffler S, Ahmed I, Abd-Alhameed R, Excell P, Hodzic V, Davis C, Gammon R, and Balzano Q (2010). Absence of nonliniear responses in cells and tissues exposed to RF energy at mobile phone frequencies using a doubly resonant cavity. Bioelectromagnetics, 31(7), 556-65. Link to abstract.

O'Connor RP, Madison SD, Leveque P, Roderick HL, and Bootman MD (2010). Exposure to GSM RF fields does not affect calcium homeostasis in human endothelial cells, rat pheocromocytoma cells or rat hippocampal neurons. PLoS ONE, 5(7), e11828. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011828. Link to open access paper.

See C H, Abd-Alhameed R A, and Excell P S (2007). Computation of Electromagnetic Fields in Assemblages of Biological Cells Using a Modified Finite-Difference Time-Domain Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 55(9), 1986-1994.

Dosimetry

Cooper TG, Mann, SM, Khalid, M and Blackwell, RP (2006). Public exposure to radio waves near GSM microcell and picocell base stations. J Radiat Prot, 26(2), 199-211. Link to abstract.

Dimbylow P, Khalid M and Mann S (2003). Assessment of specific energy absorption rate (SAR) in the head from a TETRA handset. Phys Med Biol, 48, 3911-3926. Link to abstract.

Gabriel C and Peyman A (2006). Dielectric measurement: error analysis and assessment of uncertainty. Phys Med Biol, 51, 6033-6046. Link to abstract.

Peyman A, Gabriel C, Grant E H, Vermeeren G and Martens L (2009). Variation of the dielectric properties of tissues with age: the effect on the values of SAR in children when exposed to walkie–talkie devices. Phys Med Biol, 54, 227–241. Link to Abstract.

Peyman A, Holden SJ, Watts S, Perrott R and Gabriel C (2007). Dielectric properties of porcine cerebrospinal tissues at microwave frequencies: in vivo, in vitro and systematic variations with age. Phys Med Biol, 52, 2229-45. Link to Abstract.