Friday, October 11, 2013

U.K. Acoustic Neuroma Link Fades Away


U.K. Acoustic Neuroma Link Fades Away


After Data from 2009-11 Added

October 6, 2013
Last updated 
October 8, 2013
The research group at the University of Oxford that reported a link between long-term use of a mobile phone and an elevated risk of acoustic neuroma (AN) in May now says that it is no longer there. In a short letter to the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE), the Oxford team advises that when the analysis was repeated with data from 2009-2011, "there is no longer a significant association." Also gone, the team writes, is the "significant trend in risk with duration of use."
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