Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative

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Photo courtesy of Radiation Research

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Report available: http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp

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For those who haven't seen the report named above announced on the 25 August 2009, it reports on a further international investigation into what impact the use of mobile phones may have on the human brain. I do not propose to make a judgmental article that argues the 'fores and againsts' as I think you need to make up your own.

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You may agree with me that when highly skilled people come together to collaborate on research like this that we should at least allow for the opportunity to acquaint ourselves with what it is they are saying and see if we can learn how to reduce or remove any risks that might be.

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Reading the report and placing the concepts in it relating to testing in confined spaces where numbers of mobile phones, awaiting examination or are being examined, are all switched ON and bursting at full power to the network to register, then that process and procedure needs to be looked at closely to see if there is any risks to health that could exist. As I understand it, talking with the report publisher today, brain tumours are less likely to show up within 10-15 years (which is approximately the life of GSM at present) as the cycle of a brain tumour may not be known for 25 years, and in other cases 40 years. I am not a medical expert, but I am listening to what is being said.

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I mention the time periods because it has always been my argument that if there was a case to answer relating to mobile phones and Masts radiating everyone to death or causing health issues, surely the exposure to mobile phone usage spanning from 1985 (when UK TACS was introduced) to the present time with GSM surely that respresents some form of semi-empirical test result; meaning not all the issues have been considered in the fullest sense by qualified research, but common-sense applies. However, 25-40 years may mean there could be issues down the line to deal with that wont be known yet. So hopefully, to my professional mobile telephone colleagues, do not ignore this issue, be prepared to read without prejudice.

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The full press release that was issued is below:

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Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative

August 25, 2009
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BERKELEY, CALIF. & SUTTON COLDFIELD, ENGLAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A new report, "Cellphones and Brain Tumors:15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone," was released today by a collaborative of international EMF activists. Groups affiliated with the report include Powerwatch and the Radiation Research Trust in the U.K., and in the U.S., EMR Policy Institute, ElectromagenticHealth.org and The Peoples Initiative Foundation. Download the report.
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The exposé discusses research on cellphones and brain tumors and concludes:
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• There is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use;
• Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors, and;
• Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors.

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This report, sent to government leaders and media today, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ‘systemic-skew', greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.
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The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as ‘unexposed'; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.
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Lloyd Morgan, lead author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society says, "Exposure to cellphone radiation is the largest human health experiment ever undertaken, without informed consent, and has some 4 billion participants enrolled.Science has shown increased risk of brain tumors from use of cellphones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer, salivary gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia. The public must be informed."
International scientists endorsing "Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern" include:

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Ronald B. Herberman, MD, Director Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; David Carpenter, MD, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany; Martin Blank, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University; Professor Yury Grigoriev, Chairman of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, and many others.