Mobile phones and malignant melanoma of the eye

Johansen C, Boice JD Jr, McLaughlin JK, Christensen HC, Olsen JH

Brit J Cancer 86:348-349, 2002

Recently a four-fold increase in the risk of malignant melanoma of the eye was associated with the use of radiofrequency transmitting devices, including mobile phones in Germany. We contrasted the incidence rates of this rare cancer with the number of mobile phone subscribers in Denmark.

We observed no increasing trend in the incidence rate of melanoma, which was in sharp contrast to the exponentially increasing number of mobile phone subscribers starting in the early 1980s.

Our study provides no support for an association between mobile phones and ocular melanoma.