Lead researcher Lloyd Morgan said there could be a 'brain tumour pandemic' unless people changed their patterns of mobile phone use. This would include texting rather than holding the phone to the ear

　　研究員勞?！さ履Ωf如果人們不改變使用手機的方法，很快就會發(fā)生腦瘤大流行。不僅僅是貼近耳朵接聽，就連發(fā)短信也會受到傷害。

　　People who talk on mobile phones are up to five times more likely to develop brain tumours than those who stick to landlines, academics have warned。

　　學(xué)者們聲稱，使用手機的人比用固定電話的人患腦瘤的幾率大四倍。

　　They say a number of previous studies into mobile phone safety 'substantially underestimated' the cancer risks and that tumours are much more common on the side of the head to which the mobile is held than on the other side。

　　他們說之前對手機安全性的研究“大大低估”了貼近手機那側(cè)的大腦比另一側(cè)大腦患腦瘤的危險性。

　　Mr Morgan, of the Environmental Health Trust, a U.S. campaign group, spoke out after re-examining the figures from six previous studies。

　　美國環(huán)境健康基金的摩根先生在重新檢查了以前六項研究的數(shù)據(jù)之后發(fā)表了上述評論。

　　These included a Swedish one which originally concluded that people who used mobile phones for at least ten years were 3.9 times more likely to develop an acoustic neuinroma - a non-cancerous tumour - on a nerve near the ear to which they held their phone compared to those who rarely or never used the devices。

　　這其中包括了瑞典的一項研究，那次的最初結(jié)論是使用手機至少十年的人比常人患非癌癥腦瘤的幾率高3.9倍，長在經(jīng)常貼近手機的耳朵附近一處神經(jīng)上。

　　The reanalysis, designed to take into account flaws in the design of the study which could have skewed the results, put the increased risk at 4.9 times。

　　重新開展的研究把實驗設(shè)計本身的缺陷也考慮進去后，發(fā)病幾率提高到了4.9倍！

　　However, British cancer experts said predictions of a 'brain tumour pandemic' were overblown. 'Even after the minor adjustments reported in this new analysis, the results from the overall Interphone study are still either not statistically significant, or right on the borderline.'

　　不過，英國的癌癥專家說"腦瘤大流行"的預(yù)言太夸大了，"即使經(jīng)過了這個小小的修正之后，使用手機的后果統(tǒng)計也是即不精確，也不準確的."

　　John Cooke, of the Mobile Operators Association, which represents the industry, said a World Health Organisation fact sheet last month stated that 'to date, no adverse health effects have been established for mobile phone use'。

　　手機工業(yè)的代表--移動設(shè)備協(xié)會的約翰。庫克說，上個月的世界健康組織發(fā)布的文件聲稱"到目前為止，手機使用還未對人體健康產(chǎn)生負面影響"。