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Publication: SST Date: 23 Mar 2003 Page: A 16
Headline: Cellphone link to tumours ..
SCIENTISTS HAVE found the first evidence of a link
between regular use of digital mobile phones and brain tumours. Researchers in
Sweden discovered a 30% increased risk of brain tumours among regular users,
typically those spending more than an hour a day on the phones. Such tumours
occurred most frequently on the side of the head to which the person held their
phone. The biggest increase was seen in acoustic neuromas, which form behind the
ear and can mostly be treated. Mobile phones have been found to alter the
workings of brain cells, affect memory and cause cancer in laboratory rats.
Until now, however, there has been no proven link to human disease. The new
study, published in the International Journal of Oncology, was based on the
analysis of 1600 tumour victims who had been using mobile phones for up to 10
years. Professor Kjell Mild, the Swedish biophysicist who led the study, said:
"The evidence for a connection between phone use and cancer is clear and
convincing. The more you use phones and the greater the number of years you have
them, the greater the risk of brain tumours." An earlier study by Mild and
Lennart Hardell, a cancer specialist, linked brain tumours to the use of
analogue mobile phones. The new research repeated this and also looked at
digital mobiles and "Dect" cordless phones. It showed that all three types were
linked with increased tumour rates. Acoustic neuromas are usually slow growing
and can be detected because they cause tingling and hearing loss. However, it
takes doctors an average of two years to make a diagnosis, and surgery, the
usual treatment, can leave damaged nerves that lead to involuntary facial
spasms. Since 1980, the number of acoustic neuromas diagnosed in Britain has
risen from one in every 100,000 of the population to one in 80,000 a year. The
mobile phone industry has long resisted any suggestion of a link to cancer,
though it accepts that mobile phone radiation does affect the electrical
activity in the brain._The Sunday Times
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