Association between vestibular schwannomas and mobile phone use

" In a case–control study, the odds ratio (OR) of tumor incidence according to mobile phone use was 0.956. In the case–case study, tumor volume and estimated cumulative hours showed a strong correlation (r2 = 0.144, p = 0.002), and regular mobile phone users showed tumors of a markedly larger volume than those of non-regular users (p < 0.001). When the analysis was limited to regular users who had serviceable hearing, laterality showed a strong correlation with tumor side (OR = 4.5). We found that tumors may coincide with the more frequently used ear of mobile phones and tumor volume that showed strong correlation with amount of mobile phone use, thus there is a possibility that mobile phone use may affect tumor growth." {Credits 1}

{Credits 1} 🎪 Moon, I. S., Kim, B. G., Kim, J., Lee, J. D., & Lee, W. S. (2014). Association between vestibular schwannomas and mobile phone use. Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 35(1), 581–587. doi:10.1007/s13277-013-1081-8. © 2013 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.