http://health.asiaone.com/print/Health/News/Story/A1Story20080819-83040.html More young people at risk of getting brain cancer The cells of younger people are more
vulnerable to toxins - and it could be due to increased usage of
handphones. -myp BY: CALVIN YANG OUT of 13 brain-cancer patients seen by Dr Keith Goh in the
last four months, seven were below 45.
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Should your kid have a cell phone?Posted by jeyer August 11, 2008 12:36PMHere's a good article summarizing the questions parents should ask themselves before getting a cell phone for their child: What to know before buying your kid a cell phone For me, the biggest factor is the health concern. I wouldn't want to get Belle a cell phone unless I could be sure that she would use a headset every time. Health risks COMMENTS (3)Post a comment
Posted by billcouzens
on 08/12/08 at 11:17PM
This what really matters the choices we as parents make for our children to reduce the unnecessary and preventable exposures that could have harmful outcomes to human health. How many times in the last 50 years have we assumed products/practices to be safe for our children because of lack of information only to say to ourselves ..maybe we should have done something else? I know as child I used to play with mercury, I would get radiation for acne, and the lawn would get sprayed while I was playing in the sandbox. It all seemed fine then- but we know today it is not. We know that as opposed to heredity scientist tell us most cancers comes from outside of our bodies. Today we have higher incidences of non smoking related cancers than ever before. Every school day we have 46 children diagnosed with cancer. Approximately 1.4 million people will be diagnosed with some from of cancer in the United States this year. Those numbers for a "non-scientist" like me are too much, and if someone like a Ronald Herberman, MD, Director of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute who is an expert- says we don't know what cell phones do to human health-specifically children - lets use precautions. I say why not? Since Richard Nixon first declared the war on cancer in 1971 Americans have poured roughly $200 billion, in inflation-adjusted dollars, into cancer research and cancer drug development between 1971 and 2004. Clearly we can be doing things differently. Bill Couzens, Founder Lesscancer.org
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