Mobile phones don’t increase risk of brain cancer, according to study

Researchers in Australia found no increase in tumours over the last 29 years, despite an enormous increase in the use of the devices, DailyMail writes.

According to the source, there were 'significant' rises in tumours in the elderly, but the increase began five years before mobile phones arrived in Australia in 1987, the researchers said.

The study's author, Professor Simon Chapman, of the University of Sydney, said phones emit non-ionising radiation that is not currently thought to damage DNA - and his findings make him even more confident the devices are not liked to cancer.