Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold'

Children and adolescents who are five times more likely to get cancer of the brain in the case of the use of mobile phones, the amazing, new research indicates.

The study, experts say raises fears that today's young people may suffer from the "B" of the disease later in life. At least nine out of 10 British and 16 years of age to have the phone, as do more than 40 per cent of pupils in primary schools.

After investigation of the risks to young people has been omitted from the massive £ 3.1m British investigation of the cancer risk from using mobile phones, launched this year, although the official Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR (the program - which is it -- recognizes that this issue is of "high priority".

Despite the recommendations of an official report that the use of mobile phones by children should have the "lowest possible", the government has done almost nothing to discourage.

Last week the European Parliament voted 522 to 16 to urge ministers across Europe to bring in stricter limits for exposure to radiation from mobile phones and radios, and WiFi and other devices, partly because children are especially vulnerable to them. Are more vulnerable because the brain and nervous system are still developing and because - since their skulls are smaller and thinner - the radiation penetrates deeper into the brain.

The Swedish Research reported this month in the first international conference on mobile phones and health.

Arose from the further analysis of data from one of the largest studies conducted in the risk of radiation causes cancer, headed by Professor Lennart Hardell of University Hospital in Sweden Aorburu. Professor Hardell told the conference - held at the Royal Society by the Radiation Research Trust - that "the people who started mobile phone use before the age of 20" more than five-fold increase in glioma ", a cancer of glial cells that support the central nervous system . the excess risk of young people of contracting the disease from using the cordless phone found in many of the houses almost as large, to more than four-fold.

Who started the use of mobile young people, and also added five times more likely to get acoustic neuromas, benign but often disrupt the nerve tumors of the audio, which usually cause deafness.
In contrast, people who were in their twenties by the use of mobile phones, only 50 per cent more likely to contract gliomas and just twice as likely to get acoustic neuromas.

Said Professor Hardell IOS: "This is a warning, which is very worrying and we must take the necessary precautions." He believes that children under the age of 12 should not use phones only in emergencies and that teenagers should use hands-free devices or the head and focus on texting. 20 reduces the risk because the brain and then completely. Indeed, it was recognized, and a danger to children and adolescents, but may be larger than his results suggest, because the results of this study do not show the effects of the use of phones for many years. Most cancers take decades to develop, longer than mobile phones and put on the market.

Research has shown that adults who used cell phones for more than 10 years is very likely to get gliomas and acoustic neuromas, but he said that there are sufficient data to show how such relatively long-term would increase the use of the risk of those who had started young .

He wants more research to be done, but the risks to children will be studied in the MTHR study, which followed 90000 people in Britain. Professor David Coggon, the chairman of the program management committee, said they were not included because other research was being done on young people through a study in Sweden Kariolinska Institute.

He said: "It looks frightening to see the five-fold increase in the incidence of cancer among people who started use in childhood," but he said he was "very surprised" if the danger has been found that this increase in time all the evidence.

But David Carpenter, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health at the University of NewYork - who also attended the conference - said: "Children spend considerable time on mobile phones and we could be facing a crisis in public health and epidemic brain cancer due to the use of mobile phones."

In 2000 and 2005, two official inquiries under Sir William Stewart, chief scientist in the former government, and recommended the use of mobile phones for children should not "encourage" and "reduce."

But almost nothing has happened, and use by young people has more than doubled since the beginning of the millennium.