BioEM 2025

Session

Tutorial 2

T2

25 Jun 2025, 08:30

La Nef (Couvent des Jacobins)

Conveners

Tutorial 2: RF Exposure and Cancer: WHO Systematic Review and Advancing Epidemiological Perspectives

• Joe Wiart
• Wout Joseph

303. The WHO Systematic Review on Cancer: What is it and What did it find?

Ken Karipidis

25/06/2025, 08:30

Radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) are mainly used for telecommunications purposes such as radio and television broadcasting, mobile telephony, and other wireless communications. Concern has been raised regarding possible adverse effects to human health, such as cancer, from RF-EMF exposure, recently from emerging technologies like the 5G mobile network. It is therefore crucial...

304. RF exposure and cancer: epidemiological perspectives – implications of different study designs

Maria Feychting

25/06/2025, 09:00

Over the last decades, considerable scientific efforts have been made to determine whether exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) below guideline levels may affect cancer risk. The widespread use of handheld mobile phones in the general population, that developed from none to essentially 100% in less than two decades, makes this a potentially very important public health...