The World Health Organization (WHO) will soon unveil the results of a groundbreaking, $30 million investigation into cell phone dangers. According to media reports – the study known as the Interphone investigation – found evidence of a link between cell phones and brain cancer.
According to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, a preliminary analysis of the WHO study’s data found a “significantly increased risk” of some brain tumors “related to use of mobile phones for a period of 10 years or more.” The Interphone project conducted studies in 13 countries, interviewing tumor sufferers and people in good health to see whether their use phone use differed. Interviews were conducted with 12,800 people between 2000 and 2004.
Six of eight Interphone studies found some rise in the risk of glioma (the most common brain tumor), with one finding a 39 per cent increase the Daily Telegraph said. Two of seven studies into acoustic neurinoma (a benign tumor of a nerve between the ear and brain) reported a higher risk after using mobiles for 10 years. A Swedish report said it was 3.9 times higher. An Israeli study found heavy users were about 50 per cent more likely to suffer tumors of the parotid salivary gland.
The Interphone authors did say the study was not definitive, and limited because it depended on subjects’ memories to determine frequency of cell phone use. But the study’s head, Dr Elisabeth Cardis, said she backed new warnings for cell phones based on its findings. “In the absence of definitive results and in the light of a number of studies which, though limited, suggest a possible effect of radiofrequency radiation, precautions are important,” she said. Dr. Cardis said she would back the idea of restricting cell phone use among children, although she thought banning the devices entirely for kids was a bad idea.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the publication of the Interphone study, which was funded in part by the mobile phone industry, was delayed because its authors could not agree on how to present its conclusion. But the final paper is expected to be published in medical journal before the end of the year.
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October 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
This study is a sad reflection with about the same validity as those studies showing VDT use links to abortions or ELF Studies that linked cancer to power lines and so on. First, the perported increases may indicate multiple, unrelated co-founders, second the body cannot “STORE” non-ionizing radiation and third, no study has “EVER” found an “INJURY MECHANISM” except HEAT from EMF and cell phone use has far too little power for heat development. We are completely emmersed in a pandemic increase in electromagnetic fields every minute of every day yet cancer rates in the general populations remains flat over 20 or more years. This is another very weak correlation study that the media will run for awhile and then it will die a natural death as it should, in my view. Ernie Harper 26Oct09
October 26th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
This study is a sad reflection with about the same validity as those studies showing VDT use links to abortions or ELF Studies that linked cancer to power lines and so on. First, the purported increases may indicate multiple, unrelated co-founders, second the body cannot “STORE” non-ionizing radiation and third, no study has “EVER” found an “INJURY MECHANISM” except HEAT from EMF and cell phone use has far too little power for heat development. We are completely immersed in a pandemic increase in electromagnetic fields every minute of every day yet cancer rates in the general populations remains flat over 20 or more years. This is another very weak correlation study that the media will run for awhile and then it will die a natural death as it should, in my view. Ernie Harper 26Oct09
October 27th, 2009 at 8:40 am
I’m a physicist and I wrote a blog that compares cell phone radiation to the radiation leaked from microwave ovens. Please check it out:
http://www.peterdolph.com/2009/08/will-microwave-radiation-give-you_19.html
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Excuse me but just how long was it before the government put warning labels on cigaretts saying”by the way this product can cause lung cancer and other diseases. How about asbestos or lead based paint. How long are you willing to wait? Do you have children who are constantly on cell phones and will be for some 50 years. Go to UTube and click on cell phone dangers or mycellphonehealth.com and listen. I’m not going to wait 20 or 30 years to protect my kids, I can tell you that!!