well I may be misreading this, but if you live in Israel, you'll drop dead from cancer of the Silivary Glands within days, wheras if you live in Denmark, you become
less likely to get cancer if you use a mobile phone.
or something.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7250372.stm Quote:
Heavy mobile phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, a study suggests.
Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition and compared their mobile phone usage with 1,300 healthy controls.
Those who had used the phone against one side of the head for several hours a day were 50% more likely to have developed a salivary gland tumour.
...
Despite these latest findings, the largest and longest-running investigation ever to be carried out into mobile phone usage found no increased risk of any sort of cancer.
It followed 420,000 people in Denmark, some of whom had been using a mobile phone for as long as ten years.
There was in fact a lower incidence of cancer than expected in a group of that size, suggesting mobile phones had no impact on the development of tumours. |
hmmm.
Quote:
Numerous studies have focused on the risk of tumours among those who use mobile phones, and overwhelmingly found no increased cancer risk.
But researchers at Tel Aviv University say these have tended to focus on brain tumours, and often did not include long-term users. |
it seems obvious to me that it'd have been worth looking at things beyond just brain tumours. in particular, given that phones are often kept in pockets near, erm, sensitive genetic material. mostly though i'm just waiting to see if taxi drivers develop amusing ear-growths from their silly hands-free headset things.
