Friday, February 2, 2007 - 13:49 (GMT+99)
Filed under: Mobile Phones | by :luk |

Heise: In the wake of the publication of the results of a new study pointing to mobile phones as a possible human health hazard the German Cancer Aid foundation has warned against “spreading panic.”

In a talk with the German daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung the head of the advisory committee of the German Cancer Aid foundation, Professor Otmar Wiestler, said that to this day the mechanisms by which brain tumors develop are essentially unknown.

“Even the data of the study conducted in the five North European countries does not provide unambiguous proof that will stand up to scientific scrutiny,” Mr. Wiestler said.

Although the long-term study, the results of which became known recently, indicated “no clear connection between mobile phone use and brain cancer,” it did point to the possibility of a connection between the emergence of tumors of the central nervous system and long-term intense use of mobile phones; here too further research to clarify matters was required, the professor observed. Anssi Auvinen, one of the authors of the study, said that although all in all no increased risk of cancer had been found, the possibility of a connection between long-term mobile phone use and an increased tumor risk on that side of the head to which a user tended to hold his or her mobile phone did justify further research.