Cancer study ordered into mobile phones

[Herman Munster]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2556768,00.html

A mass study of the long-term impact of mobile phones is to be undertaken amid fears that people who have used them for more than ten years are at greater risk from brain cancer.

More than 200,000 volunteers, including long-term users, are to be monitored for at least five years to plot mobile phone use against any serious diseases they develop, including cancer and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

Professor Lawrie Challis, who is in the final stages of negotiation with the Department of Health and the mobile phone industry for the £3 million that he needs to fund the study, told The Times that research has shown that mobiles are very safe in the short term but that there is a “hint of something” for people using them longer.

In an interview, Professor Challis, a world expert on mobile phone radiation, and chairman of the government-funded mobile telecommunications health research programme, emphasised that the “hint” was just that. One European study has found a slight association and using a mobile for more than ten years. The few long-term users developed more acoustic neuroma brain tumours which were found close to the ear used for phoning.

[aquart]

1. HAH! Evil, annoying things.

[WiseButAngrySara]

2. GBM (Glioblastoma Multiforme) is the worst type of brain

cancer, and many studies show that it is on the rise. A Swedish study a few years ago showed a correlation between this Cancer and the older cell phones. Thanks for the link.

[lligrd]

3. Reminder To Self

Update cell phone.

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. LOL! They no longer make the kind in the study. More than

a decade old.

[lligrd]

7. Were Those The Giant Ones

that you had to have a backpack to lug around?

[tblue]

5. And I just heard on the radio that the number of people without landlines is growing

[geomon666]

15. I don't have a land line.

I just have absolutely no use for one.

[tblue]

22. So either don't use the phone much, or wear a helmet

[Rosemary2205]

6. Correct if I'm wrong but isn't this old news?

When cells and cordless phones first started getting popular they sold "thingies" to stick in the phone to supposedly deflect the electromagnetics away from your head.

[lligrd]

8. Just This Year, While Christmas Shopping

(I guess that is technically last year) I saw a regular sized phone handset that was supposed to attach to your cell phone and prevent this. Do you suppose they are simply behind the times? Or playing to our fears? lol

[Rosemary2205]

9. I wonder what they would put on the death certificate?

Cause of death - "cell phone" or "never shut the fuck up"


or something......... :)

[lligrd]

10. Yackity Yak

Good one! :rofl:

[lligrd]

11. Hey, That Wasn't Directed At Me Right?

ROFLMAO

[Rosemary2205]

20. No it wasn't -- LOL :) nt

[BlueIris]

12. People ask me why I don't have a cell phone. This is why. nt

[theHandpuppet]

13. No cellphone here, either.

Some folks can't even go to the bathroom without yakking on the cellphone. And how I just love hearing folks share the most intimate details of their lives while standing in the checkout line of the grocery store. There seems to be people who can't drive, eat, or watch a movie without that damned thing glued to their ears and their mouths moving like a perpetual motion machine. And any sense of modesty or manners flew out the window with those little devices, too. I hate trying to have a conversation with someone who's text messaging the whole time, or someone who can't get through a decent meal at the dinner table without taking a half dozen phone calls.

But boy, have the American people bought the pitch or what? Why, you don't need just ONE cellphone! Everyone in your family needs one, too! More than one! Here, sign up for this plan and you'll never have to put them down! Get them in "cherry chocolate" or take pictures with them while you're talking!

Rant over. Now back to my apparently unfulfilling -- yet blissfully quiet -- cellphone-less life.


:)

[Nay]

18. Amen to that, handpuppet. I fail to see the allure. In fact, cell phones

are so damned annoying in the hands of the people-who-can-never-shut-up, that at work, I can no longer count on the quiet 5th floor eating nook to actually be quiet. Cell phone yakkers have found it, and use it as a "quiet" place to call every goddam person on earth, while the rest of us who want to read/eat/knit in peace on our lunch hour are disturbed beyond endurance. That nook is the ONLY place that is quiet--the other breakrooms have blaring TVs for those OTHER fucking idiots who can't go an hour without a fix from the boob tube. Honestly, when I retire, I'm going to a cabin in the woods.

Don't even get me started on the bigger picture -- what does it mean for society if we have raised a population that cannot stand to sit quietly with itself for even a few minutes? Well, look around. You have your answer.

[Karenina]

21. And NO ONE considers the real cost

in human terms, of their new toys. Hint: Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[marions ghost]

19. Agreed--my motormouth extended family appears to be addicted

--they "herald" their arrival anywhere with at least 2-3 calls. My sister calls me to chat WHILE she is shopping or doing other tasks that are not what I would consider mindless. She's on the phone with her husband several times a day, coordinating every detail of their busy lives (she also owns a business). In addition she must have constant access to my niece at all times. And then my niece is perpetually connected to her boyfriend by phone. For example, I had not seen the niece in awhile and we were having a conversation. Her boyfiend paged and it was all over for that. When I objected later (mildly) to being put on permanent hold (face-time should preempt phone time, shouldn't it?) she got angry and insisted that it's not polite not to take your cell phone calls and I'm being ridiculous. My sister on the other hand does not object to being treated this way by my niece, I suspect for fear her daughter will be less in touch with her. :shrug:

I'm not against cell phones. I have one and it comes in handy at times. But I think it can become a true addiction. There is something neurotic about feeling the need to chat constantly anywhere and everywhere IMO.

[WinkyDink]

16. My 2 reasons = $$ and misanthropy.

[marions ghost]

14. it helps to use

an external headphone when possible. They are not expensive and worth the trouble.

Until the results of really longterm studies are in, it would be wise to limit cell phone use.

It's people who are on them constantly, like teens and young adults, that worry me. They are guinea pigs IMO.

[qanda]

17. It just pains me to see children using cell phones

I have a friend who is a nuclear physicist and she said developing children should never use cell phones. I have seen kids as young as six with cell phones-- it's just crazy! I have a cell phone and I never use it unless it's an emergency. I probably used all of 30 minutes on my phone last year. My husband on the other hand uses his cell phone all the time and I worry about his safety.