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Published by Oxford University Press 2009.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Uveal Melanoma: Results of the Risk Factors for Uveal Melanoma Case-Control Study

Andreas Stang, Andrea Schmidt-Pokrzywniak, Timothy L. Lash, Peter Karl Lommatzsch, Gerhard Taubert, Norbert Bornfeld, Karl-Heinz Jöckel

Affiliations of authors: Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany (AS, AS-P); Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA (TLL); Leipzig, Germany (PKL); Institute of Pathology at Elsapark, Leipzig, Germany (GT); Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany (NB); Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany (K-HJ)

Correspondence to: Andreas Stang, MD, MPH, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometry and Informatics, Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Magdeburger Str 8, 06097 Halle (e-mail: andreas.stang{at}medizin.uni-halle.de).

We recently reported an increased risk of uveal melanoma among mobile phone users. Here, we present the results of a case–control study that assessed the association between mobile phone use and risk of uveal melanoma. We recruited 459 uveal melanoma case patients at the University of Duisburg-Essen and matched 455 case patients with 827 population control subjects, 133 with 180 ophthalmologist control subjects, and 187 with 187 sibling control subjects. We used a questionnaire to assess mobile phone use and estimated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) of risk for uveal melanoma using conditional logistic regression. Risk of uveal melanoma was not associated with regular mobile phone use (OR = 0.7, 95% CI = 0.5 to 1.0 vs population control subjects; OR = 1.1, 95% CI = 0.6 to 2.3 vs ophthalmologist control subjects; and OR = 1.2, 95% CI = 0.5 to 2.6 vs sibling control subjects), and we observed no trend for cumulative measures of exposure. We did not corroborate our previous results that showed an increased risk of uveal melanoma among regular mobile phone users.


CONTEXT AND CAVEATS

Prior knowledge

Although there is no direct link between exposure to radio waves and the genotoxic mechanisms that lead to cancer, studies to address the association between use of cellular telephones and cancer risk have been performed.

Study design

Case-control study of uveal melanoma patients in Germany using three groups of control subjects: population-based, siblings of patients, and ophthalmology control subjects.

Contributions

No association between cellular telephone use and uveal melanoma risk was observed.

Implications

Using cellular telephones is not associated with increased risk of uveal melanoma.

Limitations

Subjects who agreed to participate in the study were more likely to regularly use cellular telephones than subjects who did not agree to participate.

From the Editors

 
Manuscript received May 23, 2008; revised October 9, 2008; accepted October 28, 2008.


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