MONDAY, Mar 31, (News Locale) - Using your mobile phone extensively for a decade or more might double the risk of brain cancer, a leading British neurosurgeon has claimed.  Dr Vini Khurana said the danger of developing cancer from mobiles was more pronounced than the ill-effects of smoking.

Earlier studies have also linked use of mobiles to cancer, but so far there is no evidence on hand to prove that cancer is indeed caused by using mobiles. Dr. Khurana based his conclusions on a review of 100 studies and said the radiation exposure from mobiles was indeed threatening.

"This danger has far broader public-health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," Dr Khurana, told the Independent of London. He added that an estimated 3 billion people yak continuously on mobiles, while just one billion smoke.

Therefore he theorized that using mobiles is more harmful than smoking.

Previous research has also implicated the electromagnetic radiation from mobiles as being responsible for cancer. A study in the October 2007 issue of the Occupational Environmental Medicine said that using mobile phones for just an hour every day for 10 years is enough to increase the risk of developing cancer. That study was led by Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro and Professor Kjell Hansson Mild of Umea University.

They reviewed the results of the 11 studies that have so far investigated the occurrence of tumors in people who have used phones for more than a decade, drawing on research in Sweden, Denmark Finland, Japan, Germany, the United States and Britain. They reported an increased risk of cancer in almost all people, especially on the side of the head where people listened to their handsets.

In September last year an investigation by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research program funded by the British government and the industry sources claimed that the mobile phones were not associated with any biological or adverse health hazards.

Earlier this year new research carried out by Finnish scientists has revealed that radiation from mobiles phones could alter the protein structure of the human skin, although its affect on the health is not yet known.

However it must be emphasized that cancer and mobile phones have been linked since a long time. Hard evidence is yet to be found on cancer links, but the results of some studies also cannot be ignored.

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