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News Desk
New research is pointing to a "brain tumour pandemic" caused by heavy mobile phone use according to a new study that suggests that the world’s four billion phone users should keep handsets way from their heads and bodies to lower the risk of cancer. Governments are being warned that health warnings should be "strengthened" to mobile phone users, and that excessive use of mobile phones may increase the chances of contracting brain cancer.
The American Environmental Health Trust said:
"What we have discovered indicated there is going to be one hell of a brain tumour pandemic unless people are warned and encouraged to change current cell phone use."
"People should hear the message that cell phones should be kept away from ones head and body at all time".
The United Nations World Health Organisation study "Interphone" concluded that making calls for more than half an hour a day increases brain cancer risk by as much as 40 per cent.
There was a 24 per cent chance of contracting glioma, the most common type of brain tumour from "regular use".
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