Feb
27
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2/27/2009 8:44 AM
Professor Malcolm Sim, a researcher at Australia's Monash University has joined a major new international study into mobile phone use and brain cancer risk in young people. Professor Sim, based at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, said the study would assess any potential brain cancer risks associated with the use of mobile phones by children and teenagers.
The five-year study will involve young people aged 10 to 24 who have had a brain cancer as well as people of a similar age who have not and will recruit participants from Australia, New Zealand, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Israel and Canada.Professor Sim said the study would be one of the first in the world that looked at any association between brain tumours and mobile phone use in this age group.
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