ID Number		1641
Study Type		Epidemiology
Model		Occupational RF exposure and correlation with brain tumors (INTERPHONE Germany add-on)
Details		Cases of brain tumors (n = 844) involving glioma (n = 366), meningioma (n = 381), and acoustic neuroma (n = 97) patieints, correlations with occupational exposure to RF and microwaves were evaluated. The study was an add-on to the German arm of the Interphone study and used information from the Interphone questionnaire. Four exposure categories were defined (high = continuous exposure that sometimes exceeded 0.8 W/kg, probable, not probable, and no RF exposure). The authors report no effect on total glioma (OR = 1.04, 95% CI 0.68 - 1.61) or meningioma (OR = 1.12, 95% CI 0.66 - 1.87). When 10+ yrs of high exposure was considered, the ORs increased slightly (glioma OR = 1.39, 95% CI 0.67 - 2.88, meningioma OR = 1.55, 95% CI 0.52 - 4.62). The authors suggest these findings are still statistically insignificant, and possibly due to variation and recall bias (either cases overestimating exposure or unable to recall accurately, or simply the small number of cases available to the study)
Findings		No Effects
Status		Completed With Publication
Principal Investigator		University of Mainz, Germany - joachim@cancer.dk
Funding Agency		EU, BfS, Germany, INTERPHONE (IARC) coordinated studies, MMF, GSM Association, DMF, Germany
Country		GERMANY
References		Samkange-Zeeb, F et al. Cancer Epidemiol., (2010) 34:55-61 Berg, G et al. Am J Epidemiol, (2006) 164:538-548
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