Limit Cell Phone Use or Risk Brain Tumours

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<p><a href=“http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3036005.ece[/url]”>http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3036005.ece&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>*Using a mobile phone for more than 10 years increases the risk of getting brain cancer, according to the most comprehensive study of the risks yet published.</p>

<p>The study – which contradicts official pronouncements that there is no danger of getting the disease – found that people who have had the phones for a decade or more are twice as likely to get a malignant tumour on the side of the brain where they hold the handset.</p>

<p>The scientists who conducted the research say using a mobile for just an hour every working day during that period is enough to increase the risk – and that the international standard used to protect users from the radiation emitted is “not safe” and “needs to be revised”.</p>

<p>They conclude that “caution is needed in the use of mobile phones” and believe children, who are especially vulnerable, should be discouraged from using them at all.*</p>

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<p>I thought the report talked about acoustic neuromas, which are not brain tumors, but tumors of a cranial nerve. Acoustic neuromas are not cancerous, but benign, slow-growing tumors. I was told that mine grew only about 1 mm per year. If untreated, they can cause deafness, facial paralysis, loss of balance, and other problems as they press against other brain tissue.</p>

<p>And I hardly ever use a cell phone!</p>

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<p>Good reason to use an ear plug or headset. </p>

<p>There is an increasing amount of evidence on the harmful effects of the ever thicker electronic soup we live in. Controversial stuff.</p>

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<p>Yes, MADad, but it also talked about malignant gliomas. High grade gliomas are extremely deadly.</p>

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<p>This is scary stuff, but somehow not surprising.</p>