Ipsilateral use of a cellular telephone increased the risk of tumours in the temporal, temporoparietal and occipital areas by 2.42-fold.

PMID: 

Neuroepidemiology. 2003 Mar-Apr;22(2):124-9. PMID: 12629278

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Vestibular schwannoma, tinnitus and cellular telephones.

Abstract: 

Cases with tinnitus after using analogue cellular telephones are presented. An increased odds ratio of 3.45, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.77-6.76, was found for vestibular schwannoma (VS) associated with the use of analogue cell phones. During the time period 1960-1998, the age-standardized incidence of VS in Sweden significantly increased yearly by +2.53% (CI 1.71-3.35). A significant increase in the incidence of VS was only found for the latter of the two time periods 1960-1979 and 1980-1998. For all other brain tumors taken together, the incidence significantly increased yearly by +0.80% (CI 0.59-1.02) for the time period 1960-1998, although the increase was only significant for benign tumors other than VS during 1960-1979.

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