New WHO systematic review says: Wireless increases cancer risks for animals
This is the conclusion of the latest systematic review from April 2025 that was done for World Health Organisation (WHO). A systematic review is a way of evaluating the research done so far on a topic. The aim of WHO is to reach an overall conclusion, and the review shows that here is high certainty that two types of cancer can be linked to radiation of cell phones. Although many researchers have for long drawn the conclusion that wireless can be harmful, the findings in this present review go against generally adopted views of many national health authorities and of WHO itself. The ESC urges authorities to lower exposure limits without delay to ensure real protection.
This conclusion of the review cannot have come out of the blue for WHO
Already in 2011 WHO classified radiation from wireless as possibly carcinogenic. Nevertheless the regulating authorities in general followed ICNIRP’s advice to consider only heating of the skin by wireless radiation as potentially harmful. International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) is the organisation that advises health authorities worldwide. This advice led to much higher exposure limits than many scientists deem correct as they find all kinds of harmful effects at far lower levels of radiation.
These findings cannot have come out of the blue for ICNIRP either
In September 2024 and February 2025 ICNIRP did its own systematic reviews of human observational studies on the cancer risk in the general and working population. But the conclusions of these studies don’t support the outcome of the latest review. Meanwhile, these ICNIRP studies are widely criticised and its conclusions are considered invalid. This is not the first time ICNIRP has been challenged in the public debate.
Scientists have been reporting adverse effects on life for decades
Many scientists have warned for long about the harmful effects of radiofrequency radiation at intensities far below the exposure limits. Not only cancer is matter of concern. Fertility problems and EHS are also examples of the negative effects of RF radiation faced by the people. These are problems that develop even at low radiation intensities. And what will this radiation do to wildlife?
The National Toxicology Program (Nov. 2018) and the Ramazzini Institute (Aug. 2018) both found evidence of a link between RF radiation exposure and cancer. Following the publication of these animal studies, there have been urgent requests to amend the WHO classification in line with these findings.
ESC expects WHO to change its views on exposure limits
Will the outcome of this latest systematic review change the way the WHO views the safety of wireless communications? These kinds of experiments on animals are normally used to predict effects on humans without experimenting on them. But humans have already been exposed to this radiation for years and now animal and human studies point to the same tumour types. We clearly have more to fear from radiation than just heating the skin. Therefore ESC definitely expects the WHO to change its mind. This is the only right thing for WHO to do.
To protect life radiation must be reduced immediately
The Chair of ESC, Rob van der Boom, says, “ESC has claimed for long that it is time to accept that wireless communication is neither safe nor healthy. Now there is ample evidence. The current exposure limits are long outdated. Society needs lower limits and protection of the vulnerable – right away! Cancer rates are rising since the introduction of wireless. EHS people are suffering. Our children are more vulnerable, but are heavily exposed. There is no time to waste.”