Cell Phone Use Not Carcinogenic: Danish Study

Mobile phones have forever faced successive reversals of fortunes as regards their potential carcinogenicity.

In the latest round, mobile phones seem to be in the clear.

Acording to a recent Danish study, even extended use of cell phones does not make the users more prone to brain tumours.

A Danish study of some 2.8 million users of cell phones who have used cell phones for 11 to 15 years have been found to be in no greater risk of acoustic neuroma which is a non-cancerous tumour spreading between the ears and the brain. Acoustic neuroma is characterised by ringing in the ears and vertigo (but hypochondriacs would do well to keep in mind that ringing in the ears and vertigo can be the symptoms of fairly innocuous disorders also); fatal cases of acoustic neuroma are not unknown.

According to Dr. Joachim Schuz, who has conducted the reported study: “Of interest is that acoustic neuromas grow in the area of the brain where greater energy emitted from the cellphones is absorbed, compared to other areas of the brain.”

That cell phones do not increase the risk of acoustic neuroma is being taken to suggest that cell phones may not be enitting any significant radiation capable of causing cancer.

In sharp contrast, an earlier study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer suggested a link between Glioma – a malignant cancer – and cell phones. The IARC study considers cell phones “possibly carcinogenic”. This is in sharp contradisticntion to the the earlier WHO opinion that no adverse health effects due to the use of mobile phones have been established.

The difference in the conclusions of the two studies suggests that the issue is by no means settled.

So, cell phone users can relax -at least till another study comes up and plays spoil sport for them!

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