Mobile phone increased risk of brain tumors

Mobile phone users have more risk for brain tumors.
In the U.S. study, the scientists had found a relationship between mobile phone and brain tumors. DrDeepa Subramaniam, director of the Brain Tumor Center at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC says that there is no link between hand phone and brain tumors. But Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health says there are obvious risks.
"I'm not going to let the children to use cell phones, or I would at least require them to use a separate headset," said Moskowitz.

The researchers found that using the phone for over a decade or more resulted in 18 percent increased risk of brain tumors tend to appear on the side where the phone is used, Moskowitz said. But Moskowitz sure also potentially harmful to other areas of the body - the genitals, for example - when the phone is carried in a pocket.

"We need to do more research because the stakes are very high and there seemed to be suggestive evidence that you are more careful about this, especially in children, who have developed networks and smaller brain size and skull," Moskowitz warned.

Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking for more research into the risks posed by long-term cell phone use, rather than the more frequently studied short-term risk. It's urgent that research has focused on the health of children, pregnant women and fetuses as well as workers who use mobile phones in the long term.
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