No Increase in Brain Tumors Seen From Cell Phones

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Now days cell phone use where you put the phone to your head is on a decrease. By the time they figure this out it will be too late. The norm now is to see bluetooth devices everywhere. But all stuck to someones head all day long. So is this better or worse? Are they more safe?

david of MD 10:07AM October 22, 2010

Count on conspiracy theorists to shoot the messengers or parrot some absurd pseudoscience when they don't like the news.
High quality studies? How about the World Health Organisation's? The WHO said:
"No recent national or international reviews have concluded that exposure to the RF fields from mobile phones or their base stations causes any adverse health consequence."
(http://www.who.int/features/qa/30/en/)
A 10-year-long Swedish study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology concluded:
"Handheld mobile phones were introduced in Sweden during the late 1980s. The purpose of this population-based, case-control study was to test the hypothesis that long-term mobile phone use increases the risk of brain tumors. The authors identified all cases aged 20–69 years who were diagnosed with glioma or meningioma during 2000–2002 in certain parts of Sweden. Randomly selected controls were stratified on age, gender, and residential area. Detailed information about mobile phone use was collected from 371 (74%) glioma and 273 (85%) meningioma cases and 674 (71%) controls. For regular mobile phone use, the odds ratio was 0.8 (95% confidence interval: 0.6, 1.0) for glioma and 0.7 (95% confidence interval: 0.5, 0.9) for meningioma. Similar results were found for more than 10 years’ duration of mobile phone use. No risk increase was found for ipsilateral phone use for tumors located in the temporal and parietal lobes. Furthermore, the odds ratio did not increase, regardless of tumor histology, type of phone, and amount of use. This study includes a large number of long-term mobile phone users, and the authors conclude that the data do not support the hypothesis that mobile phone use is related to an increased risk of glioma or meningioma. "
(http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/161/6/526)
CELL PHONES are NOT KILLING PEOPLE. However, the overuse of ALL CAPS is LETHAL to one's CREDIBILITY.

Brian 2:18PM December 05, 2009

This article completely (and probably deliberately) excludes comments by these same researchers who acknowledge that such tumors take a long time to develop - so why would we expect to see much of a rise by 2003? (The BBC story on this study DOES mention these comments, BTW.) Answer: we wouldn't. People weren't widely using cell phones until around 1998-1999. If it takes about 10 years for these tumors to develop (as these SAME researchers note), we shouldn't expect to see much if any difference until at least 2009. Why didn't they include more recent data? Very suspicious.
I agree with what someone else here said: this has Tobaccogate II written all over it.

Lon Nease of OH 12:52PM December 04, 2009

Who says "even though there is no scientific evidence for such a connection"? There is *plenty* of scientific evidence for such a connection. Hardell et al saw the connection. So did the Israeli group. Leaked information from the long-delayed Interphone study also see a connection. Cancer always takes time to develop to where it can be diagnosed. Even with smoking and asbestos it takes more than 10 years. How many people had cell phones in 1993? Almost no one, and they were totally different from the phones that most Americans started using around 2003.

Bill B. Ph.D. of NY 12:17PM December 04, 2009

Frankly, I am disappointed in the current research result. I had hopes for the salvation of human kind resulting from Darwin Award behavior. The distraction of cell phones is a danger to us all.

Jim Dahlke of MI 10:25AM December 04, 2009

I have 2 young friends who got brain tumors. oh I don't have many friends, I might add...

oz of NC 7:09AM December 04, 2009

Please tell Dr.Paul Graham Fisher that my husband has a malignant glioma from his 20 yrs of ipsilateral cell phone use.
We have documentation of this from top researchers. I have testified to congress and since then I have been contacted by scores of others with gliomas from their cell phone use.
SOME ARE NOW DEAD. They are in their 30's and 40's. He is damn right that this will not go away as we are heading for a pandemic. LOOK AT THE HIGH QUALITY STUDIES not the industry funded studies - this is tobacco all over again. PLEASE report both sides and do your homework. CELL PHONES are KILLING PEOPLE. We need not abandon them but we need the public to be properly warned.

Ellie of CA 1:08AM December 04, 2009