Mobiles linked to cancer
p2pnet.net News:- Mobile-phone use over 10 or more years increases the risk of a benign form of cancer on the side of the head where the phone is usually held, says a new Swedish study.
“At the time when the study was conducted only analogue (NMT) mobile phones had been in use for more than 10 years, and therefore we cannot determine if the results are confined to use of analogue phones, or if the results would be similar also after long-term use of digital (GSM) phones,” says the first report from the Swedish part of the Interphone study, an international research project coordinated by the World Health Organization’s cancer research institute.
Sweden’s Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institute shows 10 or more years of mobile-phone use boosts the risk of acoustic neuroma, a “benign tumor – occurring in less than one adult per 100,000 per year – on the auditory nerve that grows slowly over a period of years before it is diagnosed”.
The findings seem similar to those reported by Swedish scientist Lennart Hardell, “whose research was attacked by industry lawyers and ultimately discarded by U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake two years ago in her dismissal of an $800 million cancer lawsuit against Motorola Inc. and others,” says RCR Wireless News, going on:
“The mobile-phone industry, which has been successful in health litigation to date, faces six brain-cancer suits that Blake sent back to the District of Columbia Superior Court in July. In addition, industry is awaiting a ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., on Blake’s rejection of five class-action suits seeking to force wireless carriers to supply subscribers with radiation-reducing headsets.”
In 2000, the WHO reported: “Current scientific evidence indicates that exposure to RF fields, such as those emitted by mobile phones and their base stations, is unlikely to induce or promote cancers.”
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See:-
Swedish study – Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma, Karolinska Institute, October 13, 2004
ultimately discarded – WHO study says long-term wireless use increases cancer risk, October 13, 2004
WHO – Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile telephones and their base stations, WHO, June, 2000
