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Article: Specialist condemns mobile phones
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 5, 2001
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A CANCER specialist claims people who used mobile phones for two
hours a day in the 1980s and early 1990s have a "significantly
raised" risk of developing a brain tumour.
Lennart Hardell, of Orebro University in Sweden, compared 1,600
people who survived brain tumours with 1,600 healthy people. He
found those who had used mobile phones for more than five years were
26 per cent more likely, and those who used them for more than a
decade 77 per cent more likely, to develop a brain tumour than those
who did not.
He also said the tumours were 2.5 times more likely to be on the
same side of the head as the phone was usually held.