NewsTarget: Cell Phones & 270% Increased Risk of Brain Tumors

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Mobile phones boost brain tumor risk by up to 270 percent on side of

brain where phone is held

 

http://www.newstarget.com/021634.html

 

Thursday, February 22, 2007 by: M. T. Whitney

NewsTarget) Using a cell phone regularly – even a modern one –

raises the risk of developing a brain tumor for many users, a new

Finnish study published online in the International Journal of

Cancer. The study, done by a collection of researchers from many

universities and led by Anna Lahkola of the Radiation and Nuclear

Safety Authority in Finland, found firm corollary evidence that

using a cell phone causes the risk of getting a brain tumor called a

glioma to rise by 40 to 270 percent on the side of the head

preferred for using the phone.

 

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What you need to know - Conventional View

 

• The study compared 1,521 cellular phone users who received a

glioma to 3,301 control participants without tumors.

 

• For people who have used a modern cellular phone for more than

2000 hours in their lifetime, the risk of getting a brain tumor rose

by 270 percent.

 

• The study is considered the second that firmly correlates cell

phone usage with an increased risk of developing certain brain

tumors.

 

• The risk was highest among people under the age of 20.

 

• Older-style analog cell phones already have been shown as a source

of brain tumors, but even with the development of digital cellular

phones, the risk is still there.

 

• According to a scientist associated with the web site

foodconsumer.org, the study results should not make readers assume

that ten years of cell phone use will correlate to an immediate

tumor, but that the tumor will show up later than that.

 

 

What you need to know - Alternative View

• Mobile phone manufacturers have tried to suppress the dangers of

mobile phones by funding their own distorted research that concludes

the phones are perfectly safe.

 

• All people -- but children and teens especially -- should be

warned against using mobile phones due to the increased risk of

brain tumors.

 

 

Bottom line

• Cell phone usage is shown to increase your risk of a brain tumor.