We all heard about the health-risks involving mobile phones but most research from around the world have found no real evidence that radiation from mobile phones and TV towers is actually harmful – So I’ve never paid much attention to these claims.
However a new study, by researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life, said on Friday that they have found a clear link between prolonged mobile phone usage and malignant brain tumors. They looked at the mobile phone use of 905 people between the age of 20 and 80 who had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and a total of 85 of these cases were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is they began early to use mobile and/or wireless telephones and used them a lot.
“The study also shows that the rise in risk is noticeable for tumors on the side of the head where the phone was said to be used,” it added.
Kjell Mild, who led the study, said the figures meant that heavy users of mobile phones, for instance of who make mobile phone calls for 2,000 hours or more in their life, had a 240 percent increased risk for a malignant tumor on the side of the head the phone is used. “The way to get the risk down is to use hands-free,” he told Reuters. He said his study was the biggest yet to look at long-term users of the wireless phone, which has been around in Sweden in a portable form since 1984, longer than in many other countries.
News source: ZDNet