Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours: A Public Health Concern
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Mar 26, 2008, 6:30:20 PM3/26/08
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Brain Surgeon demonstrates clear brain tumour risk
Dr. Vini G. Khurana, a Staff Specialist Neurosurgeon for The Canberra
Hospital, has written a paper looking at recent epidemiological and
laboratory research on mobile phones and likelihood of an increase in
brain tumour risk, and finds the evidence to be fairly overwhelming.
Click here for the full news story
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20080328_khurana_brain_tumours.asp
Dr. Vini G. Khurana, a Staff Specialist Neurosurgeon for The Canberra
Hospital, has written a paper looking at recent epidemiological and
laboratory research on mobile phones and likelihood of an increase in
brain tumour risk, and finds the evidence to be fairly overwhelming.
Click here for the full news story
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20080328_khurana_brain_tumours.asp
Omega Group
Apr 13, 2008, 2:12:55 AM4/13/08
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08 June 2008
mobile phones and brain tumours –a public health concern
dr. vini gautam 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. ~ read more and also brain-surgery.net.au - Dr.
Vini G. Khurana MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS
dr. khurana has written a research paper the aim of which is to:
"[S]cientifically and objectively review data suggesting or
refuting a relationship between mobile phone usage and the occurrence
of malignant brain tumours. Following fourteen months of research
involving a comprehensive review of over 100 sources in the recent
medical and scientific literature in addition to the Press and
Internet, the author concludes that there is a growing body of
statistically significant evidence for a relationship between the
overall length of use of a mobile phone and the delayed occurrence of
a brain tumour on the same side of the head as the "preferred side"
for mobile phone usage. The elevated risk (increased odds) appears to
be in the order of 2 - 4 fold."
KEY MESSAGES OF THIS WORK:
• Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure
to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger
this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.
• 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.
• A 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
====
A child's brain is structurally developing well into adolescence, has
a greater relative water content and lower volume compared with an
adult's brain, and subject to more "plasticity" (structural and
functional reprogramming) at a microscopic level. It is logical to
expect that exposing a child's brain to cell phone radiation is likely
to cause cellular damage that, in due course, may lead to brain
cancer. Children should NOT use mobile or cellular phones unless in an
emergency.
Informant: Martin Weatherall
mobile phones and brain tumours –a public health concern
dr. vini gautam 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. ~ read more and also brain-surgery.net.au - Dr.
Vini G. Khurana MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS
dr. khurana has written a research paper the aim of which is to:
"[S]cientifically and objectively review data suggesting or
refuting a relationship between mobile phone usage and the occurrence
of malignant brain tumours. Following fourteen months of research
involving a comprehensive review of over 100 sources in the recent
medical and scientific literature in addition to the Press and
Internet, the author concludes that there is a growing body of
statistically significant evidence for a relationship between the
overall length of use of a mobile phone and the delayed occurrence of
a brain tumour on the same side of the head as the "preferred side"
for mobile phone usage. The elevated risk (increased odds) appears to
be in the order of 2 - 4 fold."
KEY MESSAGES OF THIS WORK:
• Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure
to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger
this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.
• 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.
• A 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
====
A child's brain is structurally developing well into adolescence, has
a greater relative water content and lower volume compared with an
adult's brain, and subject to more "plasticity" (structural and
functional reprogramming) at a microscopic level. It is logical to
expect that exposing a child's brain to cell phone radiation is likely
to cause cellular damage that, in due course, may lead to brain
cancer. Children should NOT use mobile or cellular phones unless in an
emergency.
Informant: Martin Weatherall
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