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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (123248)	8/17/2002 12:03:26 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 152472

Journal publishes research at centre of mobile phone cancer risk lawsuit news.ft.com By Gautam Malkani Published: August 17 2002 5:00 \| Last Updated: August 17 2002 5:00 A London-based scientific journal has published research at the centre of a cancer-related lawsuit against US mobile phone companies. The publication of the study - which suggests that mobile phone use may increase the risk of certain brain tumours - is significant because lawyers defending the industry have widely attacked the study's previous failure to be included in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The research by Professor Lennart Hardell of Sweden's Orebro Medical Centre - first reported by the Financial Times in its preliminary form a year ago - was published this week in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention. The survey of 1,617 brain tumour patients suggests that benign tumours in the temporal area of the brain were 2? times more likely to be on the side of the head used during calls on analogue mobile phones. The risk increased to more than three times for acoustic neurinoma tumours. The findings form a key plank in efforts by a team of US lawyers to persuade a Baltimore district court judge to permit the first cancer-related lawsuit against the industry to proceed to trial. The lawsuit is being brought by attorneys working with Peter Angelos, the lawyer emboldened by his success against the tobacco and asbestos industries. The Baltimore decision, expected soon, will rule on the admissability of submissions from scientific witnesses including Prof Hardell. The legal hurdle was designed to ensure the reliability and relevance of scientific witnesses and was devised by the US Supreme Court in 1993 to protect juries from "junk science". The mobile phone industry heavily criticised Prof Hardell's evidence during hearings in Baltimore district court in February because of its rejection by The Lancet, the prestigious scientific journal.