Evidence of mobile phone harm and mobile phone dangers, like brain tumours, has been found in many studies. Evidence of cordless phone harm and cordless phone dangers has also been foundand benign tumours, again, like brain tumours' ha also been found. The findings of this latest pooled analysis* of two studies investigating links between mobile phone use and malignant brain tumours included:

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Lifetime use exceeding 2,000 hours

• Increased risk of developing a malignant tumour: analogue (original) mobile phones - sixfold, digital mobile phones - fourfold, cordless phones - double
• Increased risk of developing a malignant tumour on the same side of the head as habitually used when phoning: analogue (original) mobile phones, digital mobile phones and cordless phones - all double

Lifetime use exceeding ten years

Increased risk of developing a high-grade astrocytoma brain tumour: analogue (original) phones - threefold, digital phones - fourfold, cordless phones - double

* from Lennart Hardell and colleagues at the Department of Oncology, Orebro University Hospital (Sweden)

Ed.- Two thousand hours is an incredibly short time for low-level exposure to a carcinogen to cause a biological effect. That would be, for instance, two hours use a day for just over two and a half years.