No solid conclusion could be drawn from an extensive health study on mobile phones and their link to some types of brain cancer, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The 10-year study of nearly 13,000 people by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer received partial funding by the mobile phone industry. While there might be a link between heavy usage and some cancer, no solid connection could be drawn, though most of the study's participants were not deemed heavy users, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA". There have also been indications of decreased risk resulting from regular use, further confusing the picture. "Overall, no increase in risk of either glioma or meningioma was observed in association with use of mobile phones," the study's conclusion said, referring to two types of cancer. "There were suggestions of an increased risk of glioma, and much less so meningioma, at the highest exposure levels, for ipsilateral exposures and, for glioma, for tumors in the temporal lobe," it stated.
