Italian researchers Ardoino and Pinto presented an updated meta-analysis on 5G exposure and cancer in animal studies at the IEEE ICEAA 2025 conference in Palermo, focusing on skin carcinogenesis data.
"The aim of this work is to provide an update of data about skin carcinogenesis and co-carcinogenesis in animal studies extracted from our previous Systematic Reviews (SRs)."
"The original reviews were conducted according to the PRISMA guideline and to the 'OHAT Risk of Bias Rating Tool for Human and Animal Studies' and they included a total of 47 papers for the evaluation of tumor incidence (22 on carcinogenesis, 20 on co-carcinogenicity and 5 on both); a meta-analysis was carried out on incidence and survival data with 23 papers from carcinogenesis and 18 from cocarcinogenesis to assess the possible increased risk of both malignant and benign tumors in all organs reported the selected papers. For the skin, 5 papers on carcinogenesis and 7 on cocarcinogenesis were considered (only 1 excluded from the meta-analysis)."
"The results do not show a direct association between RF-EMF exposure and skin cancer risk, with evidence rated as insufficient or inadequate; an inadequate Health of Evidence for an association between in vivo co-exposure EMF-RF/known carcinogens and skin tumor incidence was assessed too."