Heavy cell phone use leads to brain tumors

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Who hasn't suspected this?

http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/Cell_phone_use_raises_brain_tumor_risk.shtml

Cell phone use raises brain tumor risk

By David Liu Ph.D.
Apr 1, 2006, 17:15

April 1 (Foodconsumer.org) - Using a cell phone or mobile phone over a long period raises the risk of malignant brain tumors, according to a new Swedish study published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.

The study found that heavy users of cell phones increased their risk of a malignant brain tumor on the side of the head the phone is used by 240 percent.

By heavy users, the authors referred to those who used a cell phone for 2,000 hours or for one hour a day over a period of more than ten years.

Previous studies have found no evidence suggesting that radiation from cell phones is linked with elevated brain tumor risk although the damaging effect of cell phone use has been suspected for long.

In the current study, researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life compared cell phone use of 2,200 patients with malignant tumors and an equal number of healthy control cases.

Among the tumor patients aged 20 to 80, 905 had a malignant brain tumor, one third of them were heavy users of cell phones.

"Of these 905 cases, 85 were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is they began early to use mobile and/or wireless telephones and used them a lot," Reuters quoted the authors of the study in a statement issued by the Institute.

The study may have more say than some previous studies about the effect of cell phones on the risk of brain tumors, according to Kjell Mild, lead author of the current study, because this is the biggest study looking at the long-term effect of the wireless phone.

One study published last April by the American Academy of Neurology found no link between use of mobile phones and brain tumors. That study found that the risk of developing a brain tumor was not related to the frequency of cell phone calls or the number of years they had been used.

One drawback of that study is that few study participants regularly used cell phone for more than 10 years. Short-term exposure to radiation from cell phones and long-term development of a brain tumor may make it impossible for the researchers to see any tumor-causing effect of cell phones in such a study.

Another weakness of the 2005 study is that the participants were "hand-picked". The study is not a population-based cohort study. Bias can not be avoided and the potential risk of cell phone use may be diluted out by other factors.

As with other studies of the same type, the current study also has its limitations. For one thing, the study relied on data collected from subjects through interviews, which may be subject to biases and errors when someone recalled his use of cell phones.

Dr. Lydia Zablotska, an epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, was quoted by New York Daily News as saying: "You're interviewing subjects in an era when everyone has a suspicion that cell phones may be harmful."

Regardless, few scientists may deny the fact that cell phone radiation can damage cells and potentially cause tumors. What needs to be clarified is how much damage use of cell phones may cause in the brain, which can be quite some task.

With the continuing controversy over the safety of cell phone use, it's only prudent for one at least not to overuse cell phone if he can't avoid using cell phones. "The way to get the risk down is to use handsfree," Mild told Reuters.

Experts suggest children should avoid using cell phones whenever possible because they are the people who are most vulnerable to the tumor risk.

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Apr 1, 2006

I would wait for some confirmation on that one.....

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Apr 1, 2006

I would wait for some confirmation on that one.....

That's certainly your call. Personally, if I were one of those heavy cellphone users, I'm not sure I would want to wait.

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wasn't this said about cell phones about 8 years ago? i think it was disproved.

i do know that wearing a blue tooth ear piece all the time leads to looking like a trekkie wanna be dork.

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[akarunway 1]

Why I use the speaker cell phones. JUST IN CASE the drinking and smoking and skydiving doesn't kill me first

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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wasn't this said about cell phones about 8 years ago? i think it was disproved.

i do know that wearing a blue tooth ear piece all the time leads to looking like a trekkie wanna be dork.

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Hear, hear! Besides looking like total dorks! When approaching someone from their side opposite that gizmo and you start talking with them. They just totally ignore you and start talking about something other than what you are. Then you see it! That 'thing' plugged in their ear! I just walk away from them. Most of the folks I see with those things or just cell-phones are mostly (to me) rude, arrogant jerks.


Chuck

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"Experts suggest children should avoid using cell phones whenever possible because they are the people who are most vulnerable to the tumor risk.", op.cit.

"86% of teenagers have cell phones", MSNBC

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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"Experts suggest children should avoid using cell phones whenever possible because they are the people who are most vulnerable to the tumor risk.", op.cit.

"86% of teenagers have cell phones", MSNBC

Exactly why I posted this. I think most people have a severe case of denial in regards to the potential harm. Many are giving up their land lines to have all their calls on the cell phone. The article above addressed many of the previous studies supposedly "disproving" the link with cancer.

Let's not forget there are billion's of dollars in profits at stake if it turns out there is a cancer link. The same kinds of forces that postponed the general recognition of a smoking/cancer link are likely in operation here.

[billvon 3,119]

>Many are giving up their land lines to have all their calls on the cell phone.

And a good thing too! Those land lines emit ELF; that stuff'll kill ya! Never mind the power cubes that most phones run on nowadays . . . .

EM radiation is everywhere. It comes from the sun. It comes out of flourescent lights and ballasts. It comes from your car. It comes from cellphones. It comes from burglar alarms. It comes from security systems at stores and airports.

If you fly, you get significant doses of ionizing radiation, which is much more dangerous than the non-ionizing radiation sources listed above. Heck, if you walk in the sun, you are putting yourself at risk for ionizing radiation sickness (i.e. sunburn) - and there is a proven link between that and cancer.

There may indeed be a weak link between nonionizing radiation and cancer. If so, your cellphone is the least of your worries. That alarm clock that sits next to your head eight hours a night, bombarding you with 60hz, 455khz and 8mhz radiation, is a much bigger threat. Of course, none of these threats will ever rival the biggest threat of all - the sun.

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The study found that heavy users of cell phones increased their risk of a malignant brain tumor on the side of the head the phone is used by 240 percent.

By heavy users, the authors referred to those who used a cell phone for 2,000 hours or for one hour a day over a period of more than ten years.

Previous studies have found no evidence suggesting that radiation from cell phones is linked with elevated brain tumor risk although the damaging effect of cell phone use has been suspected for long.

In the current study, researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life compared cell phone use of 2,200 patients with malignant tumors and an equal number of healthy control cases.

Among the tumor patients aged 20 to 80, 905 had a malignant brain tumor, one third of them were heavy users of cell phones.

OK, so of the 2200 tumor patients, 905 were heavy cell phone users.

YTF don't they tell us what the number was among the 2200 healthy patient cohort? Otherwise the number is meaningless.
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and there are other factors. A blow to the head might increase your chance of developing a tumor as the brain injury heals.

And if you are a heavy cell phone user, chances are you're one of those assholes who yaks on his cell phone in theatres & restaurants, which increases the likelihood that some concerned citizen might smack you upside your head.

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OK, so of the 2200 tumor patients, 905 were heavy cell phone users.

YTF don't they tell us what the number was among the 2200 healthy patient cohort? Otherwise the number is meaningless.
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and there are other factors. A blow to the head might increase your chance of developing a tumor as the brain injury heals.

And if you are a heavy cell phone user, chances are you're one of those assholes who yaks on his cell phone in theatres & restaurants, which increases the likelihood that some concerned citizen might smack you upside your head.

This is one of the first things I thought when I read the article as well. I even tried going to the institute's website to find the publication so I could find the missing numbers, but I wasn't able to locate the study (at least not an english copy of it.)

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OK, so of the 2200 tumor patients, 905 were heavy cell phone users.

New study results released today reveal that cell phone users who switch from ear to ear frequently experienced 50% less tumors than people who tend to use one ear most of the time.

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[lawrocket 3]

I remember hearing about the risk from electromagnetic radiation from power lines about 15 years ago. While in the Army, I had the opportunity to do some land navigation around some of these power lines. Only later did it occur to me that my compass heading stayed pretty true around those powerlines.

This told me that the magnetic energy running through the earth at al times exceeded that which I was exposed to under those powerlines. SUre, I'm no scientist, but I ended up feeling releived. Was it justifiable?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[champu 1]

This also reminds me of a story my boss told me regarding a real genius he knew at his former company.

Keep in mind during a payload test (particularly those involving freespace RF), there are generally a number of large, bright, and obnoxious flashing and revolving lights near all the entrances to the highbay where the spacecraft is being powered on, as well as around the spacecraft itself.

So wonderboy is looking for someone on the test team, and wanders into the highbay. Sees the spacecraft sitting there. Walks over to it. Looks into the DLA . Then wanders out of the highbay and into the control room where he finds the guy he was looking for. Upon noticing everyone sitting at operating consoles running tests, he asks, "uh, the spacecraft power isn't on, is it?"

"Um... yeah... all the warning lights are on... why?"

"Oh, cause I just accidentally went into the highbay. And now I feel kinda nauseous."

Luckily he didn't spend too much time with his head in front of the DLA or his stay in the hospital would have been a lot longer than the day or so that it was.