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| Cell Phones = Brain
Tumors, Testicular Cancer And More?
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| by JD Nutt, IG Web-Editor - Report last updated on April 6th, 2008 |
| An Emerging Global Public Health
Concern! |
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Shaken but not stirred is the mobile phone industry after an in-depth
sixty-four page report by Neurosurgeon, Dr. Vini G. Khurana, MBBS, BSc(Med),
PhD, FRACS, of Australia was published. |
| In his paper a reader can learn much as to the cancer opportunities
awaiting a cell phone addict. |
| In the introduction, Dr. Khurana
writes... |
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"The completion of this paper on February 7, 2008 follows 14
months of objective research by the author, involving the critical review of
over 100 sources in the recent medical and scientific literature, in addition to Press reports
and Internet content. This paper represents a systematic and concise yet comprehensive review
of this area to date and its findings highlight an emerging global public health
concern." |
| Perhaps you recall the tobacco industry
back peddling fifty years ago as they stated; "Their is no conclusive
evidence that smoking is associated with lung cancer". Now this line is
being used by the Telecommunications Industry Mobile Magnets. |
| Below are some key messages listed in Dr.
Khurana's
paper... |
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Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet
exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any
danger this
exposure poses easily dismissed.
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Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body,
particularly its electrical organ, the brain, are compounded by numerous other simultaneous
long-term exposures including continuous waves from radio and TV
transmitter towers, cordless phone base stations, power lines, and
wireless/WiFi
computing devices.
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malignant brain tumour represents a life-ending diagnosis
in the vast majority of those diagnosed. There is a significant and increasing
body of evidence, 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.
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Taken together, the data presented below compellingly suggest that
the link between mobile phones and brain tumours should no longer be
regarded as a myth. Individual and class action lawsuits have been filed
in the USA, and at least one has already been successfully prosecuted, regarding the
cell phone-brain tumour link.
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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.
In the years 2008-2012, we will have reached the appropriate length of follow-up
time to begin to definitively observe the impact of this global technology on brain
tumour incidence rates.
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There is currently enough evidence and technology available to
warrant Industry and Governments alike in taking immediate steps to reduce
exposure of consumers to mobile phone-related electromagnetic radiation and to
make
consumers clearly aware of potential dangers and how to use this
technology sensibly and safely. 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.
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To restate; Khurana said in his study:
"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." |
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Conclusion? Very simple. Put down your phone and use a
hands free device. Keep your cell phone away from your body, and do not
under any circumstance allow a child to use a cell phone. If you want more
info, read Dr.
Khurana's
paper. |
| About Dr. Khurana... |
| Dr Vini Gautam
Khurana is a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced
neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from
the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds active
medical registration with the Medical Boards of the Australian Capital
Territory and the State of New South Wales, Australia. He is the only
Australian medical graduate to have completed an entire neurosurgical
training programme, PhD and Fellowship in the United States of America,
where he trained and worked for 10 years. |
| Report Source(s): |
| http://www.brain-surgery.net.au/ |
| www.brain-surgery.us |
| http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobph.pdf |
| http://64.233.167.104/search? |
| http://www.brain-surgery.net.au/bio.html |
