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Mobile phones 'worse than smoking': Neurosurgeon

By Natasha Lomas on 02 April 2008

Mobile phones could represent a public-health time bomb akin to asbestos or smoking, according to a study by neurosurgeon Dr Vini G Khurana.

During a 14-month-long study Khurana reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile-phone use in recent medical and scientific literature -- in addition to press and internet coverage -- and concluded "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence… for a link between mobile-phone usage and certain brain tumours".

The risk may be as great as a twofold to fourfold increase of developing a tumour on the same side of the head as the "preferred side" for mobile-phone use, the report warns.

It states: "There is a growing and statistically significant body of evidence reporting that brain tumours such as vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) and astrocytoma are associated with 'heavy' and 'prolonged' mobile-phone use, particularly on the same side as the 'preferred ear' for telephony.

"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children."

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