RSSStudy: No Cancer Risk from Cell Phones
By Ed Oswald | Published January 20, 2006, 11:10 AM
Cell phone usage does not increase the risk of developing the most common type of brain tumor, known as glioma, according to the results of a four-year study performed by the London-based Institute of Cancer Research and three British universities.
The survey was the largest ever published on the subject, and seems to suggest similar findings in other studies are indeed correct. Talk of a heightened cancer risk with cell phones was commonplace in medical circles earlier this decade, however evidence was no more than circumstantial.
"Overall, we found no raised risk of glioma associated with regular mobile phone use and no association with time since first use, lifetime years of use, cumulative hours of use, or number of calls," University of Leeds professor Patricia McKinney told the British Medical Journal.
The study also disproved Swedish scientists who said rural residents are at higher risk because mobile devices broadcast more intense signals there. The researchers said they found no evidence of that in their study.
If any health risk existed from mobile phones, the researchers argued, it would have been from the analog phones used years ago. But again, no evidence of a heightened risk was found there.
Altogether, 966 people with glioma brain tumors and 1,716 healthy respondents were surveyed on their mobile phone usage and what phones they had used.
Approximately 20,000 new US and 4,000 new UK cases of brain tumors are diagnosed each year, according to medical statistics.
Bet you guys didn't know that if I slapped you across the face with my p**** that could cause cancer too. True story, my cousins', uncle knows someone this happened to!
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|Really? In related news the price of tea in China dropped...
Try to stay on topic ;)
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|Read it closly.
All that this survey says is that they don't found prove for most common brain cancer.
There can be zilion of other brain cancert things related to cell phones...
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|Basically all this is and ever was (the urban-myth about cellphones contributing to tumors) was a g** d*** way to sell QUADRILLIONS of those retarded crap a$$ cell phone guards that claim to "absorb" or "deflect" the "dangerous" radiation (oohhh my im frightened) before it reaches your delicate brainwashed chunk of grey-matter.
The guy who invented those useless pieces of crap made an A$$LOAD of cash. More then he can count; as did so many others. And the reason for that is 2-fold. 1) because what took him less then 5 cents to produce, he was selling for a whopping $40. This is EXCRUTIATINGLY painful to the ear of anyone with with any intelect at all. 2) People are just so unfathomably f'ing STUPIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!
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|While your anger may make your statements less meaningful, you have a point. IMO mostly it's the media who gets the money for the news stories about cell phones causing brain damage though. You are right though; the "cell phone guard" companies made their unfair share as well.
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|Whether or not anyone realises it, we are subjected to constant exposure to RF, 24 hours a day, for our entire lives.
TV, radio, mobiles, cordless phones, some remote controls, wireless networking, even the damn remote control car for crying out loud.
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|Wasn't there a study out recently about how cell phones negatively affect growing brains?
Basically, if you're an adult then it's fine, but if you're a child/teen then you should stay away from them.
I figure, if you have a cell phone then just think about the amount of exposure you get. A little bit of rat poison never hurt anyone, and neither will having a cell phone beside your head your entire life. Having two monitors, 4 TV's, 10 cell phones, some microwaves, etc. blasting stuff through you at different times of the day though...? Then throw in some pollution, harmful chemicals that amass in your body, etc.
It all adds up. No one thing affects it greatly, but they all add up.
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|"Wasn't there a study out recently about how cell phones negatively affect growing brains?"
LOL I'm not cutting you or anything, I must be really tired or something--but when I first read your post I thought you actually meant that you believed scientists have a secret lab where they are "growing" (meaning breeding) brains, LOL.
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|XD
Your tiredness is creepy. :P
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|1. One has to be given information on HOW this study was carried out to be able for any judgement about it. This is NOT provided here.
2. It is well known throughout biological research that radiation has negative mutational consequences on the living mechanism. Rats and mice that are radiated in laboratories age so much quicker than normal etc. - besides getting all sorts of cancers.
3. Why is the necessary information NOT supplied to the reader?
This is simply an information that gives no information at all. But, having read this, one will be guided to a "not-so-bad" attitude concerning cell phones. I call this misinformation or "brainwashing".
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|No. The media has brainwashed us, the negative info gives them more money so they report misleading info. Cell phones never have heightened risk for cancer. It makes no sense. Ultraviolet light and radiation from touching rocks that have been in the sun all day pose more of a threat than cell phones could or would. And hello! Cell phone towers send out the strong signals, not your tiny cell phone, so the whole study is a croc.
UK didnt have to tell me that. If cell phones cause cancer than this country and many others are doomed since the entire continental US is littered with thousands of evil radioactive cell phone towers. The T-mobile lady is really Satan's wife subliminaly mind controling people to buy more cell phones so that more biochemical radioactive frequencies can transmit from the evil cell phone towers, and then world domination will be all hers, MWUHAHAHAHA!
Lets get real people! Its called broadcast--having a cell phone does not increase the risk, unless the cell phone batteries are causing the cancer or something.
"One has to be given information on HOW this study was carried out to be able for any judgement about it. This is NOT provided here...Why is the necessary information NOT supplied to the reader?"
This is BetaNews, when is the last time they have explained anything about the hows and whys? They're news people too, so negative things or positive things that will get negative attention or stir up controversy will be posted. It "wouldn't be news" if it were a clear-cut answer, and since this issue is, BN can't explain it otherwise nobody would write comments here like you or I.
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|If I were to take your comments seriously, I would have to ask how you can justify making such arguements without proving them?
On one hand you are ready to tarnish the results for providing "brainwashing" information without any evidence, yet you don't supply any evidence of brainwashing occuring.
You're the victim of your own words.
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|A customer in our local Safeway yesterday was having a cell phone conversation while taking a dump.
I agree with you, cowticket.
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|It's a social disease, or rather a social ease since they are a necessary part of daily life now.
If you sit too close to the TV that causes cancer, microwave ovens cause cancer, everything that emits radiation causes cancer.
Let me put it this way, if I can hear my phone's transmitting digital single through my audio equipment (an old Gemini PMX 2001 (DJ mixer)) I can bet that is doing something to my brain when it's directly next to it.
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|Looks like you need to move to the African savannas.
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|Cellphones are cancer
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|I need to see this on Mythbusters .... only then i will believe it
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|I think of Mythbusters as the Underwriters Laboratory for how people actually use stuff not how it's intended to be used.
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|There is one myth disproved.
Another one is the Antenna Booster sticker. lol, people will believe anything.
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