Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 21-04-2017
In what has been described as a world first, an Italian court has found that there may be a link between mobile phone use and cancer.
AFP reports the court ruled that work-related use of a mobile phone caused an executive to develop a brain tumour.
The landmark ruling was made public today, in which the plaintiff was awarded a state-funded pension.
57-year-old Roberto Romeo stated that his work required him to use his mobile phone for “three to four hours” each working day for 15 years.
“I believe we have to be more aware about how to use [mobile phones].”
Romeo Romeo says his right ear started to feel “blocked all the time”, after which he was diagnosed with a tumour in 2010.
“Happily, it was benign but I can no longer hear anything because they had to remove my acoustic nerve.”
Industry experts and academics have long disputed statements which allege that cellphone usage causes or heightens the risk of cancer in people.
Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia’s Centre for Research Excellence in Electromagnetic Energy Professor Rodney Croft however says there is no substantiated evidence that the low levels of radiofrequency emissions encountered by mobile telecommunications can cause any harm. – AFP
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