A study by Sweden"s Karolinska Institute has shown that using a cell phone for ten years or more put the user at greater risk for developing acoustic
neuroma. This benign tumor if found on the auditory nerve. If the tumor occurred, it was usually confined to the side of the head that the user
usually used.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ten or more years of mobile phone use increases the risk of developing acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor on the auditory nerve,
according to a study released on Wednesday by Sweden"s Karolinska Institute.
The risk was confined to the side of the head where the phone was usually held and there were no indications of increased risk for those who have used
their mobile for less than 10 years, the Karolinska Institute said in a statement.
The institute, one of Europe"s largest medical universities and a clinical and biomedical research center, awards the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine.
"At the time when the study was conducted only analog mobile phones had been in use for more than 10 years and therefore we cannot determine if there
results are confined to use of analog phones or if the results would be similar also after long-term use of digital (GSM) phones," it said.
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The study looked at the usage of analog cell phones as digital ones are not as old. There is no data as of yet on their use and the increased cancer
risk. The cellular phone industry maintains that there is no evidence to support an increased risk of cancer from the use of the phones.
