Mobile Phones 'Raise Children's Risk of Brain Cancer Fivefold'

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A recent Swedish
research study was reported just this month at an international conference,
stated that children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain
cancer if they use mobile phones.
The Swedish study, the largest ever conducted on the hazards of cell
phones, points to an alarming trend: cell phone use increases the risk of
cancer, and tumors in young people under the age of 20. (For a comprehensive
listing of additional recent studies on the health risks of cell phones go to
www.mybiopro.com/awengrove )
Today's young people may suffer an "epidemic" of the disease in later
life. At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, as
do more than 40 percent of primary schoolchildren. And in the United States,
even more teenagers are hooked up to cell phones.
Last week the European Parliament voted by 522 to 16 to urge ministers
across Europe to bring in stricter limits for exposure to radiation from
mobile and cordless phones, Wi-fi and other devices, partly because children
are especially vulnerable to them.
Studies like the Swedish study have finally prompted hearings by the
United States Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government
Reform Committee/ The Committee announced on Tuesday their beginning
examination of the link between tumors and cell phone use.
Children are more at risk because their brains and nervous systems are
still developing and because -- since their heads are smaller and their skulls
are thinner -- the radiation penetrates deeper into their brains. (For more
information about the hazards of cell phones and ways to reduce the risk from
cell phones go to www.mybiopro.com/awengrove)
Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden
headed the Swedish study. Professor Hardell told the recent conference that
"people who started mobile phone use before the age of 20 had more than
five-fold increase in glioma," a cancer of the glial cells that support the
central nervous system.
The extra risk to young people of contracting the disease from using the
cordless phone found in many homes was almost as great, at more than four
times higher.
Those who started using mobiles young, he added, were also five times more
likely to get acoustic neuromas, benign but often disabling tumours of the
auditory nerve, which usually cause deafness.
By contrast, people who were in their twenties before using handsets were
only 50 per cent more likely to contract gliomas and just twice as likely to
get acoustic neuromas.
According to Hardell, "Children under 12 should not use mobiles except in
emergencies and that teenagers should use hands-free devices or headsets and
concentrate on texting. At 20 the danger diminishes because then the brain is
fully developed.
He admits, that the hazard to children and teenagers may be greater even
than his results suggest, because the results of his study do not show the
effects of their using the phones for many years. Most cancers take decades to
develop, longer than mobile phones have been on the market.
In the United States, David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health
at the State University of New York -- who attended the conference -- said:
"We may be facing a public health crisis in an epidemic of brain cancers as a
result of mobile phone use."
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seeks to educate the public about electro pollution hazards and minimizes the
risks through beneficial technology.
SOURCE Awen Grove

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