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Link between Salivary Gland Cancer and Cell Phones

Submitted by admin on February 19, 2008 – 9:02 am5 Comments
 

Despite previous studies that have said there is no link to cell phone use and cancer, a study done in Israeli shows otherwise according to researchers.
Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed cancer of the salivary gland 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 tumor according to the study, which appeared in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
Numerous other studies have focused on the risk of tumors among those who use cell phones and found no increased cancer risk. In fact, one of the largest and longest-running investigations ever to be carried out of cell 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 cell 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 cell phones had no impact on the development of tumors.
But researchers at Tel Aviv University said these past studies tended to focus on brain tumors, and often did not include long-term use.

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