By Brian Carnell

Thursday, May 2, 2002

Apparently there has been some fear in Great Britain that cell phone use might contribute to acoustic neuroma, a cancer of the inner ear. A study investigating the possible connection, however, found no evidence of a link between cell phone use and acoustic neuroma.

The study, published in Neurology, looked at the cell phone usage of 90 patients with this form of cancer. It found there was no link between the level of cell phone usage and cancer.

It did find a "slightly elevated risk" for people who had used cell phones for three or more years, but those patients tended to be the most infrequent users of their cell phones.

Dr. Joshua Muscat told the BBC that, "No association was observed with cumulative use, and we found no evidence of a trend in the odds of risk with increasing levels of exposure."

This is just one of dozens of ongoing studies of cell phone use in Great Britain, where the biggest association with cell phones seems to be an increased level of hysteria over the devices.

Mobiles cleared of ear cancer link. The BBC, April 23, 2002.

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