Good news: Your iPhone isn’t frying your brain.

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A new study looking at decades of cancer data has concluded that cell phones do not cause brain tumors.

Scientists looked at cancer rates in Europe after cell phones were introduced and found no rise in brain cancers. If there was a link between cell phone radiation and  brain tumors, there would have been a rise in cases after the mid-1990s, when cell phones became mainstream, the researchers figured.

Luckily for us, there wasn’t.

Reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), the Time Trends in Brain Tumor Incidence Rates study analyzed national cancer registeries in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden between 1974 to 2003 — a mountain of data that covers the entire adult populations of those countries, a total of 16 million people.

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