Tumor Risk Four Times Greater for Rural Cell Phone Users

Nic Fleming, Science Correspondence for The Telegraph - UK wrote an article referencing Prof Kjell Hansson Mild, a biologist at ÷rebro University, Sweden. In the article Fleming quotes Prof Mild saying, "Mobile phones can use up to 1,000 times more power when they are far away from a base station."

Prof Mild and Prof Lennart Hardell, also at ÷rebro University, whose research is published today in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, identified 1,429 people living in central Sweden aged 20 to 80 diagnosed with brain tumours between January 1997 and June 2000, and matched them with a control group.

Those who lived in the countryside who had used digital mobile phones for more than a year were 56 per cent more likely to have been diagnosed with a brain tumour than town and city dwellers.

Among those who had used a digital mobile for more than five years, those in rural areas were three-and-a half times more likely to have a tumour than those in urban areas. When those in both groups who had used their phones the most were compared, the risk was four times greater in rural areas.

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