COSMOS cohort study

It is an international study being conducted in five European countries – United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands and France.

The main launch of the study took place on 22 April 2010; 2.4 million UK mobile phone users were invited to participate.

Evidence to date suggests that short term (less than ten years) exposure to mobile phone emissions is not associated with an increase in brain and nervous system cancers.

There are still significant uncertainties that can only be resolved by monitoring the health of a large cohort of phone users over a long period of time.

[1] This report was updated by a further review of mobile phones and health undertaken by the Advisory Group on Non-Ionizing Radiation (AGNIR )[2] and published by the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) in 2005.

None of the research supported by the MTHR programme and published so far demonstrates that biological or adverse health effects are produced by radiofrequency exposure from mobile phones.

The report also summarizes the current evidence base regarding mobile phones and health and identifies priorities for future research.

The most recent report from the MTHR concluded that: ...short term (less than ten years) exposure to mobile phone emissions is not associated with an increase in brain and nervous system cancers.