epidemiology martin rowsley is an expert on mobile phone radiation his offices at the swiss tropical and public health institute in basel overlook a mobile network transmitter when it's eventually upgraded to five g. that will raise his groups level of exposure to radiation. based on what we know today there is no risk to your health but we need to factor a wide margin of error because there is still a lot of uncertainty in this area so is the radiation from five g. antennas benign or can it make us sick the evidence regarding radiation from current mobile networks is patchy and far from conclusive so far there's no concrete evidence linking mobile radiation to brain tumors but five g. creates new variables higher frequencies means shorter waves and they're more easily absorbed by the skin unlike the current longer way forms which penetrate the body and are absorbed within. this skin absorbs radiation differently