The DOI matches its Crossref record; 33 of the 33 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Mobile phone use and brain tumour risk - COSMOS, a prospective cohort study
Abstract
Background Each new generation of mobile phone technology has triggered discussions about potential carcinogenicity from exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF). Available evidence has been insufficient to conclude about long-term and heavy mobile phone use, limited by differential recall and selection bias, or crude exposure assessment. The Cohort Study on Mobile Phones and Health (COSMOS) was specifically designed to overcome these shortcomings. Methods We recruited participants in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK 2007-2012. The baseline questionnaire assessed lifetime history of mobile phone use. Participants were followed through population-based cancer registers to identify glioma, meningioma, and acoustic neuroma cases during follow-up. Non-differential exposure misclassification was reduced by adjusting estimates of mobile phone call-time through regression calibration methods based on self-reported data and objective operator-recorded information at baseline. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for glioma, meningioma, and acoustic neuroma in relation to lifetime history of mobile phone use were estimated with Cox regression models with attained age as the underlying time-scale, adjusted for country, sex, educational level, and marital status. Results 264,574 participants accrued 1,836,479 person-years. During a median follow-up of 7.12 years, 149 glioma, 89 meningioma, and 29 incident cases of acoustic neuroma w…
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“there was a consistent lack of association between mobile phone use and glioma risk at TSS of 10+ years in the meta-analysis of data from COSMOS and previous cohort studies, with a mRR of 0.94 (95 % CI = 0.84–1.04), based on 764 exposed cases [(Feychting et al., 2024), Supplemental Table S9].”
From The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: A systematic review of human observational studies - Part I: Most researched outcomes. (2024) · cites this paper as Feychting et al., 2024
Citations
Cites
Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
Higgins, J. P. T., & Thompson, S. G. (2002) · Statistics in Medicine · doi:10.1002/sim.1186 · Cited by 36,763
Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz)
(2020) · Health Physics · doi:10.1097/hp.0000000000001210 · Cited by 2,081
Ostrom, Q. T., Price, M., Neff, C., Cioffi, G., Waite, K. A., Kruchko, C., & Barnholtz-Sloan, J. S. (2022) · Neuro-Oncology · doi:10.1093/neuonc/noac202 · Cited by 1,565
Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields
Baan, R., Grosse, Y., Lauby-Secretan, B., El Ghissassi, F., Bouvard, V., Benbrahim-Tallaa, L., Guha, N., Islami, F., Galichet, L., & Straif, K. (2011) · The Lancet Oncology · doi:10.1016/s1470-2045(11)70147-4 · Cited by 837
The INTERPHONE Study Group (2010) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/dyq079 · Cited by 657
Cellular Telephones and Cancer--a Nationwide Cohort Study in Denmark
Johansen, C., Boice, J. D., McLaughlin, J. K., & Olsen, J. H. (2001) · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · doi:10.1093/jnci/93.3.203 · Cited by 325
Self-citationCellular Telephone Use and Cancer Risk: Update of a Nationwide Danish Cohort
Schüz, J., Lindahl‐Jacobsen, R., Olsen, J. H., Boice, J. D., McLaughlin, J. K., & Johansen, C. (2006) · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · doi:10.1093/jnci/djj464 · Cited by 229
Self-citationMechanisms for interaction between RF fields and biological tissue
Challis, L. J. (2005) · Bioelectromagnetics · doi:10.1002/bem.20119 · Cited by 224
Use of mobile phones and risk of brain tumours: update of Danish cohort study
Frei, P., Poulsen, A. H., Johansen, C., Olsen, J. H., Steding‐Jessen, M., & Schüz, J. (2011) · BMJ · doi:10.1136/bmj.d6387 · Cited by 217
Self-citation
Cited by
Karipidis, K., Baaken, D., Loney, T., Blettner, M., Brzozek, C., Elwood, M., Narh, C., Orsini, N., Röösli, M., Paulo, M. S., et al. (2024) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2024.108983 · Cited by 58
Metadata
- Authors
- Feychting, M., Schüz, J., Toledano, M. B., Vermeulen, R., Auvinen, A., Harbo Poulsen, A., Deltour, I., Smith, R. B., Heller, J., Kromhout, H., Huss, A., Johansen, C., Tettamanti, G., & Elliott, P.
- Venue
- Environment International
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-03
- Volume
- 185
- Pages
- 108552
- ISSN
- 0160-4120
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 33
- Language
- en
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
- Funders
- VINNOVA
- AFA Insurance
- Vetenskapsradet
- Forskningsrådet för hälsa arbetsliv och välfärd
- Pirkanmaa Hospital District
- Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten
- Tekes-Finnish Funding Agency for technology and Innovation
- Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Mobile phone use and brain tumour risk - COSMOS, a prospective cohort study. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108552
- The paper
- Feychting, M., Schüz, J., Toledano, M. B., Vermeulen, R., Auvinen, A., Harbo Poulsen, A., Deltour, I., Smith, R. B., Heller, J., Kromhout, H., Huss, A., Johansen, C., Tettamanti, G., & Elliott, P. (2024). Mobile phone use and brain tumour risk - COSMOS, a prospective cohort study. Environment International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108552
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
