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Cnet (Via Boing Boing) - Study: Long-term cell use raises brain tumour risk

Kjell Mild, who led the study, said the figures meant that heavy users of mobile phones, for instance of who make mobile phone calls for 2,000 hours or more in their life, had a 240 percent increased risk for a malignant tumor on the side of the head the phone is used.

“The way to get the risk down is to use hands-free,” he told Reuters.

He said his study was the biggest yet to look at long-term users of the wireless phone, which has been around in Sweden in a portable form since 1984, longer than in many other countries.

This is perhaps the first conclusive link of the impact of cell phone usage on health, as one of the many long term studies that commenced years ago which was able to link phone radiation to brain tumors.

Mobile phones are a huge business, especially in Singapore where the wireless signal permeates every inch of the land. 98% of the population tot handsets. The other 2% are too young to own one. Cell phone usage has become a necessity, so much so that it isn’t even capitalised in sentences, joining the ranks of radio, television, fans and computers in history as one of the inventions that became as common as food.

What we know is that the majority of the world is unlikely to abandon their portable communicators in-a-pocket anytime soon, given its entrenchment, but given this study, it might be advisable to start keeping phones away from faces with handsfree sets.

Side note to entrepreneurs: now is the time to start a shop sepecialising in handsfree sets! How about turning it into a MLM venture?

[tags]cell phones, mobile phones, handsfree, radiation, health effects[/tags]

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