Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation.

Dr Vini Khurana, a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers, reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones to conclude that mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

It draws on growing evidence - exclusively reported in the IoS in October - that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long. He believes this will be “definitively proven” in the next decade.

Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana’s study as “a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual”. It believes he “does not present a balanced analysis” of the published science, and “reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews”.

I believe Dr Khuruna’s study. Why? Because, behind the mobile phones are the mobile companies and I cannot trust any company, for the simple reason that their motivation is the pure profit. This is not the first study (reports continue to be published several times a year), suggesting that there are health risks from mobile phones’ electromagnetic radiation. It reminds me the world-known conspiracy of the tobacco industry. In fact, a mobile phone can cook an egg. Why not our brain cells?

Anyway, I’m not a mobile user for the last 8 years (I was a regular user from 1994 till 2000), so I’m not directly affected by the symptoms of their usage. Bad for me, I’m still a regular smoker.

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