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Article: Mobile phones could be more cancerous than smoking, asbestos
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- March 31, 2008
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Washington, March 31 -- A new study by an Indian-origin neurosurgeon has shown that cell phone use could kill more people than smoking, because of its possible association with brain cancer.
Dr Vini Khurana, a staff specialist neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital and an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Australian National University, said that heavy usage of mobile phones might turn out to be a greater threat to human health than smoking and even asbestos.
To support his finding, Khurana conducted a 15-month "critical review" of the link between mobile phones and malignant brain tumours, and said that using ...