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Mobile Phones Increase Tumor Risk, Study Says

Thu Oct 14, 1:38 AM ET

Health - Reuters

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -

Ten or more years of mobile phone use

increases the risk of developing acoustic neuroma, a benign

tumor on the auditory nerve, according to a study released on

Wednesday by Sweden's Karolinska Institute.

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The risk was confined to the side of the head where the

phone was usually held and there were no indications of

increased risk for those who have used their mobile for less

than 10 years, the Karolinska Institute said in a statement.

The institute, one of Europe's largest medical universities

and a clinical and biomedical research center, awards the Nobel

Prize in physiology or medicine.

"At the time when the study was conducted only analog

mobile phones had been in use for more than 10 years and

therefore we cannot determine if there results are confined to

use of analog phones or if the results would be similar also

after long-term use of digital (GSM) phones," it said.

The mobile phone market is now dominated by GSM phones,

which replaced the bulkier and less advanced analog phones in

many markets the mid- and late-1990s.

The mobile phone industry has said there is no scientific

evidence of negative health effects from use of mobile phones.

The Karolinska Institute said 150 people with acoustic

neuroma and 600 healthy people participated in the study.

"The risk of acoustic neuroma was almost doubled for

persons who started to use their mobile at least 10 years prior

to diagnosis," the institute said.

"When the side of the head on which the phone was usually

held was taken into consideration, we found that the risk of

acoustic neuroma was almost four times higher on the same side

as the phone was held and virtually normal on the other side."

Finland's Nokia (news - web sites) is the world's biggest mobile phone maker.

Other large producers include Motorola of the United

States, South Korea (news - web sites)'s Samsung Electronics, Germany's Siemens

and Swedish-Japanese joint venture Sony sson (news - web sites).

Global mobile phone sales have been booming as thousands of

new users sign up every day and existing subscribers replace

their old handsets with new ones, capable of taking pictures or

playing music.

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