Study Links Heavy Cell Phone Usage to Salivary Gland Cancer

Posted on February 18, 2008

The BBC reports that a new study from Isreal has linked heavy cell phone usage to increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland.

Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition 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 tumour.
The research appeared in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
Numerous studies have focused on the risk of tumours among those who use mobile phones, and overwhelmingly found no increased cancer risk.
But researchers at Tel Aviv University say these have tended to focus on brain tumours, and often did not include long-term users.

In the past cancer studies have linked or found no link between cell phones and brain cancers. A long-term study is currently underway. Other studies have linked cell phone usage to infertility. Another study said cell phones are very dirty - even dirtier than a toilet seat.

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