Cancer Risk of Long-Term Cell Phone Use
Mead MN. Strong signal for cell phone effects. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Oct;116(10):A422. PMID: 18941554.
Drawing upon a meta-analysis published in the May 2008 issue of the International Journal of Oncology, finding significant associations between long-term cell phone use and brain tumor risk, this review encourages limiting children’s use of cell phones and using speaker phones to minimize direct exposure to the head.
“We found that cell phone use is linked to gliomas [malignant brain tumors] and acoustic neuromas [benign tumors of the brain’s auditory nerve] and are showing up after only ten years,” says lead author Lennart Hardell, an oncologist and cancer epidemiologist at University Hospital in Örebro, Sweden. Specifically, for studies that included at least 10 years of exposure, there was a doubling in the risk of gliomas for ipsilateral (same-side) but not contralateral (opposite-side) exposures to the head (as reflected by which hand the subject typically used to hold his/her cell phone). A 2.4-fold increase in risk was seen for acoustic neuromas due to ipsilateral exposures, whereas no increased risk occurred for meningiomas (tumors that occur in the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord).
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Comment by Ana Ivkovic — December 30, 2008 @ 9:40 am