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Experts have refused to rule out the possibility that long-term mobile phones usage will be detrimental to one's health.

A recent study, which was conducted by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHR), found that short-term usage had no ill-effects upon a user.

However, one of the key researchers in the projects has refused to eliminate a possibility that having a mobile for more than ten years could result in cancerous growth.

Professor Lawrie Challis, chairman of the MTHR programme, commented: "We cannot rule out the possibility at this stage that cancer could appear in a few years' time."

He went on to explain that this is because the majority of cancers cannot be detected until ten years after the exposure of damage that caused them to form.

However, emerging technologies such as VoIP and instant messaging could make GSM connectivity obsolete, as cheap calls and contact rely increasingly on mobile broadband.