The prolonged use of mobile
telephones can cause tumours in the head, according to a ruling
by Turin's Appeals Court on Tuesday.
The court upheld a 2017 decision by a lower court in the town
of Ivrea regarding the case of a Telecom Italia employee hit by
an acoustic-nerve neuroma.
The ruling will reopen the debate about whether there is a
link between mobile-phone use and cancer.
A report last summer compiled by Italy's Higher Health
Institute together with several other agencies said that there
is no evidence that prolonged use of mobile phones raises the
risk of malign or benign tumours over a 10-year period.
But the report also stressed that there was a lack of data
about "the effects of long-term use of cell phones that started
during childhood".
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