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Mobile Phone Brain Tumour Risks
| Published: 26th August 2009 23:40 |
LibDem Euro MP Liz Lynne has today welcomed the release of a new report by the Radiation Research Trust, a UK-based charity, looking at the health effects of electromagnetic fields from wireless technologies, entitled "Cell phones and Brain Tumours: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone,"
The report, which includes contributions from leading radiation scientists, discusses existing research on cell phones and brain tumours and concludes there is a risk of brain tumours from cell phone use.
Liz recently became a patron of the Radiation Research Trust, based in Sutton Coldfield, after visiting the High Acres Base Station in Kingswinford to see for herself the mobile phone masts which regulator OFCOM has recently described as the biggest emitters of electromagnetic radiation in England. Local campaigners claim these have led to increased rates of cancer in the area.
Liz, who is also Co-Chair of MEPs against Cancer in the European Parliament, today commented on the release of the report:
"This report is an important contribution to the scientific debate. With so many people, including children of all ages, now owning mobile phones, we urgently need more independent research to establish what dangers, if any, long term mobile phone use may bring."
Eileen O'Connor, Director of Radiation Research Trust and herself a cancer survivor said today;
"It is time for government and industry to stop the denial about the health effects of microwave radiation and do what is right to protect public health".
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