Risk of Brain Tumor to Mobile Users

New research shows that those people who use mobile phones for more than a decade is prone to head Tumor.

Based from the Europian study of almost 5,000 people show that long term mobile users were 40 percent more likely to develop a type of nervous system tumor near the phone ear. Ideally this is because of the direct transmission of radiation from the phone speaker to the eardrum.

But the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has warned the overall results showed no increased risk and

"should not be taken too far."

Technically, the above results is an unpublished study reported in a US newsletter Microwave News. This could be an additional finding on the dangers of mobile phone use.

Similar to the other studies it also suggested increase risk of head tumors but several others have found no links to it. Researchers at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland enlisted a group of mobile phone users from four European countries - 1,521 with the cancerous tumours, called gliomas, and 3,301 people without.

The study that to be published in the International Journal of Cancer has found no evidence of connections between mobile phones and tumors in general. But when separating out the long-term users, they found out that for those who had used the phone for more than ten years were 39 percent more likely to develop tumor than the others. They said that the overall do not indicate an increased risk of Glioma in relation to mobile phone use. The possible risk could be in the most heavily exposed part of the brain with long-term use and must have a further research before the conclusions be released.

The head of Britain's Mobile Telecommunications Health Research program, Professor Lawrie Challis, has told the Telegraph newspaper the study showed a "hint of something" for longer term users that needs further exploration.

But a spokesman for the AMTA, which promotes cellular communication in Australia, said the overall evidence freed mobiles of blame.

"It shows no evidence of increased risk of brain tumours," the spokesman said.

"And because of the very small number of people in the study you've got to be careful not to go too far with these results."

In my humble opinion everything that is excessive could be harmful and would not be good for us. It is better to be careful for our safety. As we wait for further results it is advisable to minimize our use of mobile phones. Health is wealth so we don't have to take the risk from it.