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Published online 14 October 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041011-11
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Mobile phone risk revealed
Long-term phone use doubles occurrence of rare tumour.
Using a mobile phone for ten or more years doubles the risk of getting a type of benign head tumour, a Swedish study has found.
The study is relatively small, it looked at 148 patients and 600 controls, and the effect will need to be confirmed with larger groups.
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