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Dino Phone Likely Link to Tumors , Sep. 11, 2002
In what could bolster an $800 million lawsuit against Motorola and major cell-phone carriers, a new study found a possible link between older cell phones and brain tumors.
Although many studies have found no cancer risk from cell-phone use, the research said long-term users of analog phones are at least 30 percent more likely than non-users to develop brain tumors.
Swedish oncologist Dr. Lennart Hardell studied 1,617 patients with brain tumors and compared them with a similar-sized group of people without tumors.
He found that patients who used Sweden´s Nordic Mobile telephones were 30 percent more likely to have brain tumors, especially on the side of the head that touched the phone most often. Those who used the phones longer than 10 years were 80 percent more likely to develop tumors.
The lawsuit names Motorola (MOT), Verizon (VZ) and other wireless carriers