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Article: Mobile phones 'are not linked to brain tumours'
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- January 20, 2006
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Mike Waites,
health correspondent
USING a mobile phone is not linked to an increased risk of the
most common brain tumours, researchers claim today.
The largest study completed so far on mobile use and brain tumour
risks suggests there is no association between the two.
But researchers from Yorkshire and across the country say the long-
term effects of mobile phones are still unknown since they have only
been in widespread use for a decade.
The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal,
compared nearly 1,000 people with glioma - the most common type of
brain tumour - to 1,700 healthy volunteers.
The two groups were asked about their length of use of mobile
phones, how often ...