Mobile use increases cancer risk

Chances of developing a brain tumour double for those who are hooked to their mobile phones. This has been found in a study conducted by Swedish scientists, which indicates that an hour a day on a mobile phone for a decade is enough to increase the risk.
According to Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro & Professor Kjell Hansson Mild of Umea University, long term mobile users had double the chance of getting a tumour on the side of the brain where they held the handset for over ten years.
The team said children should be discouraged from using mobiles because their thinner skulls and developing nervous systems made them especially vulnerable.
The Swedish study analyzed the results of eleven previous studies carried out around the world. It examined long term users because cancer can take more than a decade to develop. The Scientists, also says the risk can be reduced by using head phones