Mobile phones give you cancer
LAST WEEK, researchers decided using a mobile phone a lot doesn't give you brain cancer.
This week a different bunch reckons that over-using your phone could give you cancer of the salivary gland instead.
Some 1800 Israelis, some with and some yet to get the condition, were studied and those who used a mobile phone against one side of the head for several hours a day were 50 per cent more likely to develop a salivary gland tumour.
Lead researcher Dr Siegal Sadetzki, reckons Isaelis are bigger chatterboxes than most of the rest of us.
"Compared to other studies, the amount of exposure to radiofrequency radiation we saw here was much higher," she said. "If you like, you're seeing what could happen elsewhere 'speeded-up' in Israel."
Heavy users in rural areas had an even higher risk that those in cities, the researchers found, deciding that mobile phones struggling to get a signal have to work harder so emit more radiation.
But Dr Sadetzki said more research is needed, and warned against running about like Corporal Jones shouting "Don't panic, don't panic!"
"We're nae doomed yet," Private Frazier might say.
The research is published in The American Journal of Epidemiology. µ
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Who campaign to not have a mobile mast near their schools, the result being that all their kids mobiles up the transmit and recieve power to reach the more distant transmitters.

I would be more worried about a handset in high power mode put to my ear, than a mast visible on the hill outside the school window.

Parents are clueless idiots who read everything the press tells them.
All the males in the world are just dying to know the effect of carrying these things around in their pockets on their ability to produce not genetically tampered offspring, and all we hear about is our tongues?
...if someone who talks endlessly on their cell phone gets cancers...
Is it at all possible that someone who's continuously wagging their tongue for several hours a day might be more subject to salivary gland tumours than someone who's not?