Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors-A Public Health Concern

Vini Gautam Khurana PhD, FRACS

This paper follows 14 months of objective research by the author involving the critical review of over 100 sources. The paper highlights an emerging global public health concern.
 Exposure is long-term
 A malignant brain tumour represents a life-ending diagnosis in the vast
majority of those diagnosed. To date at least 8 comprehensive clinical studies internationally and one long-term meta-analysis, for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours.
 Taken together, the data presented compellingly suggest that the link between mobile phones and brain tumours should no longer be regarded as a myth.
 The "incubation time" or "latency" (i.e., the time from commencement of regular mobile phone usage to the diagnosis of a malignant solid brain tumour in a susceptible individual) may be in the order of 10-20 years.
 It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking,and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children.

You can read the entire 69 page study by going to the link below.

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