- AH getting brain tumor removed from his brain. He was a frequent user of cell phones.


By Reza Ganjavi

I didn't want a mobile phone but one day I found one, took it to the lost&found office and some weeks later they wrote to me saying you can have the phone since no-one has claimed it. That one got stolen out of my bag in Zurich airport - I bought another one - but even today I minimize its use. My phone has speaker so I can put it at a distance and talk to it. Taking it close to my head makes my head hurt. On my leg, it makes my leg hurt etc. - but I use it mainly for special situations. Here's the latest news:


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2011 May - "Cellphones a 'possible' carcinogen — like coffee"
LONDON – A respected international panel of scientists says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee.

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2008

Cell Phone More Of A Cancer Hazard Than Cigarettes....

A study by an award-winning cancer expert shows that cell phone use could kill more people than smoking, it is reported.

According to the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, the study, headed by Dr. Vini Khurana, shows that there is a growing body of evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2008) — An Israeli scientist, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, has found a link between cell phone usage and the development of tumors.

Dr. Sadetzki, a physician, epidemiologist and lecturer at Tel Aviv University, published the results of a study recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology, in which she and her colleagues found that heavy cell phone users were subject to a higher risk of benign and malignant tumors of the salivary gland.

Those who used a cell phone heavily on the side of the head where the tumor developed were found to have an increased risk of about 50% for developing a tumor of the main salivary gland (parotid), compared to those who did not use cell phones.

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Published: Monday, 31-Mar-2008

Medical Research News

One of Australia's leading neurosurgeons has warned about the heavy reliance on mobile phones in today's society.

Dr. Vini Khurana, who is one of the world's top neurosurgeons, says mobile phones could present an even greater threat to human health than smoking and asbestos.

After conducting a 15-month critical review of the link between mobile phones and malignant brain tumours, Dr. Khurana says using mobiles for more than 10 years could more than double the risk of brain cancer.

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Study: Cell phone signals excite brain

Monday, June 26, 2006;
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Cell phone emissions excite the part of the brain cortex nearest to the phone, but it is not clear if these effects are harmful, Italian researchers reported on Monday.

They had 15 young male volunteers use a GSM 900 cell phone for 45 minutes. In 12 of the 15, the cells in the motor cortex adjacent to the cell phone showed excitability during phone use but returned to normal within an hour.

The cortex is the outside layer of the brain and the motor cortex is known as the "excitable area" because magnetic stimulation has been shown to cause a muscle twitch.

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FROM AUG 2005 STUDY:

However, the group said there was evidence that radiation from mobile phones could potentially cause adverse health effects, and therefore a "precautionary approach" to their use should be adopted. The government currently advises mobile phone users to keep their call times short.

And children under the age of 16 should use mobile phones for essential calls only, because their head and nervous systems may still be developing.
we know there is a correlation. even if it's a weak one it's still a concern. why take the risk?  -----------

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May 2005
As much as they still want to deny it... the fact is there is a link b/w mobile phone use & brain tumor. even a weak link is enough to say it's problematic and should be minimized..........
 
 The study, headed by Lennart Hardell, a professor of oncology at University Hospital in Orebro, is published today in a specialist British journal, Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Over the past six years, a series of studies, several of them carried out by the Orebro team, have suggested a higher statistical risk of brain tumours among heavy and long-term users of mobile phones.
 
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Excerpt from news article released Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Study: Mobile phone radiation harms DNA in lab
 
MUNICH/AMSTERDAM, Germany/Netherlands (Reuters) -- Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday.
 

The research project, which took four years and which was coordinated by the German research group Verum, studied the effect of radiation on human and animal cells in a laboratory.

After being exposed to electromagnetic fields that are typical for mobile phones, the cells showed a significant increase in single and double-strand DNA breaks. The damage could not always be repaired by the cell. DNA carries the genetic material of an organism and its different cells.

"There was remaining damage for future generation of cells," said project leader Franz Adlkofer.

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Oct 14 2004
Study Links Mobile Phones, Benign Tumors

By MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish study suggests that people who use a cell phone for at least 10 years might increase their risk of developing a rare benign tumor along a nerve on the side of the head where they hold the phone.
In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, one of the researchers behind the preliminary study, Anders Ahlbom, said the results were surprising and more research is needed.

Study disputes cell phone-cancer link

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Tue Dec 5, 4:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A huge study from Denmark offers the latest reassurance that cell phones don't trigger cancer. Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had gabbed on the gadgets for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago

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Study disputes cell phone-cancer link

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Tue Dec 5, 4:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A huge study from Denmark offers the latest reassurance that cell phones don't trigger cancer. Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had gabbed on the gadgets for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago.

They matched phone records to the famed Danish Cancer Registry that records every citizen who gets the disease — and reported Tuesday that cell-phone callers are no more likely than anyone else to suffer a range of cancer types.

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Johnny Cochrane`s brain tumor linked to cell phone use

CNN TV

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Johnny Cochrane, the famous lawyer from the O.J.Simpson trial died recently from a brain tumour. Dr Keith Black, well known neuro surgeon from Cedars -Sinai medical center in Los Angeles has determined that the tumour and his death were strongly connected to his cell phone use.

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Now, a new study -- which found that the amount of radiation given off by a cell phone can disrupt your sleep -- is adding a little more gas to the fire,

The study, which was conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), showed that exposure to electromagnetic radiation resulted in disturbed sleep patterns, potentially affecting your body's ability to recover from a day of stress.

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Exposure to radiation from your cell phone drops off slowly for the first three to four inches from your body, and then it falls dramatically, says Bloomfield.

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