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Study Rejects Link Between Mobile Phones And Cancer

Worried that talking on your cell phone will give you cancer in the head? Sit back and breath a sigh of relief as you should be okay for at least the first ten years of use. One of the largest and most rigorous studies ever into the alleged links between cancer and the use of mobile phones has failed to find any connection between the two--at least for the first ten years of use.

According to the study, published on line by the British Journal of Cancer and conducted by scientists at the world-renowned Institute of Cancer Research in London, there is no link between a type of brain cancer called acoustic neuroma and the number of years that mobiles had been used, the time since first use, the total hours of use or the total number of calls.

The study was carried out in five countries ? Britain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, all countries that established mobile networks early on and have a high mobile phone penetration ? on 678 people with acoustic neuroma and compared their use of mobile phones over a 10-year period with a group of 3,553 people who had not developed the condition.

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Posted by | Wed, Aug 31, 2005 - 09:28 AM