08 October 2007

Mobile phone cancer risk 'higher for children'

By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 4:07pm BST 08/10/2007

Children should not be given mobile phones because using them for more than 10 years increases the risk of brain cancer, a leading scientist has said.

People who have used their phone for a decade are twice as likely to be diagnosed with a tumour on a nerve connecting the ear to the brain, according to a group of scientists who have surveyed the results of 11 different studies.

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