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Mobile phones may kill far more people than smoking or asbestos a study has concluded. People should avoid using them as much as possible and governments and the mobile phone industry should take immediate steps to reduce exposure to radiation.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment of the health risks published to date.

It utilizes growing evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double your risk of brain cancer. Cancer can take at least a decade to develop so this invalidates official safety assurances that were based on earlier studies. Few, if any, people had used phones for that long at that time.

Earlier this year the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, particularly by children. Germany also has begun to advise its citizens to minimize handset use.

Professor Khurana (a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years) has published more than three dozen scientific papers. He reviewed over 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put his study results on a brain surgery website. He has also written a paper based on the research that is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.

He realizes that mobile phones can save lives in emergencies. He concludes that “there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors.” He also believes that this will be “definitively proven” within the next 10 years.

He notes that malignant brain tumors represent “a life-ending diagnosis,” and adds: “We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation.” He is afraid that “unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps”, the occurrence of malignant brain tumors and the related death rate will rise around the world within a decade from now. By this time it may be far too late for any medical intervention.

Three billion people now use cell phones worldwide each year. This is three times as many as who smoke. Smoking kills approximately five million people around the world annually.