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'Mobiles not health risk in short term'
Posted By:Hajas On 9/13/2007

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'Mobiles not health risk in short term'

LONDON: Britain's largest investigation into the possible medical risks from mobile telephone technology has concluded that a long-term cancer prognosis cannot be ruled out.

But the research, which ran six years and included the most extensive and robust studies of electrical hypersensitivity undertaken anywhere in the world, said its basic finding was that mobile phones have not so far been found to be associated with any biological or adverse health effects.

The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme said it had not found any association between short-term mobile phone use and brain cancer, but added that it could not pronounce on the effects of longer-term use.

But professor Lawrie Challis, chairman of the MTHR programme, said the research had studied only very few people who had used mobiles regularly for longer than 10 years. Cancers do not normally appear until ten to 15 years after exposure. But he said overall the evidence that mobiles did not pose a significant health risk was "pretty reassuring".

The programme said "the situation for longer term exposure is less clear as studies have so far only included a limited number of participants who have used their phones for 10 years or more".

According to the most recent estimates available, the total number of mobile phone subscribers in the world was estimated at 2.14 billion in 2005 with India recently overtaking China as the world's fastest-growing mobile phone market.

The British programme said it found there was only a slight excess reporting of brain and ear cancers. Challis said the programme had found the merest "hint" of a higher cancer risk. Researchers said this finding straddled the borderline of statistical significance.

The University of Essex had dismissed the notion that mobile phone masts can trigger symptoms such as anxiety and nausea in sensitive individuals.

Three years ago, a thin-sample survey by a Swedish institute found that using a mobile phone for 10 years or more increases the risk of ear tumours by four times. It is this risk that Wednesday's new British report finds itself unable to pronounce upon. The British programme reported that studies on volunteers showed no evidence that brain function was affected by mobile phone signals or the signals used by the emergency services.

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mobiles_not_health_risk_in_short_term/articleshow/2363590.cms




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