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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on July 3, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(7):637-643; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj242
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Original Contribution

Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Parotid Gland Tumor

Stefan Lönn1, Anders Ahlbom1, Helle C. Christensen2, Christoffer Johansen2, Joachim Schüz2, Staffan Edström3, Gert Henriksson4, Jan Lundgren4, Johan Wennerberg5 and Maria Feychting1

1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2 Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
4 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
5 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Correspondence to Stefan Lönn, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Box 210, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: Stefan.Lonn{at}ki.se).

Handheld mobile phones were introduced in Denmark and Sweden during the late 1980s. This makes the Danish and Swedish populations suitable for a study aimed at testing the hypothesis that long-term mobile phone use increases the risk of parotid gland tumors. In this population-based case-control study, the authors identified all cases aged 20–69 years diagnosed with parotid gland tumor during 2000–2002 in Denmark and certain parts of Sweden. Controls were randomly selected from the study population base. Detailed information about mobile phone use was collected from 60 cases of malignant parotid gland tumors (85% response rate), 112 benign pleomorphic adenomas (88% response rate), and 681 controls (70% response rate). For regular mobile phone use, regardless of duration, the risk estimates for malignant and benign tumors were 0.7 (95% confidence interval: 0.4, 1.3) and 0.9 (95% confidence interval: 0.5, 1.5), respectively. Similar results were found for more than 10 years' duration of mobile phone use. The risk estimate did not increase, regardless of type of phone and amount of use. The authors conclude that the data do not support the hypothesis that mobile phone use is related to an increased risk of parotid gland tumors.

case-control studies; cellular phone; electromagnetic fields; neoplasms, radiation-induced; parotid gland; salivary glands

Abbreviations: UICC, International Union against Cancer


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