Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Study Concludes...No Proof of Cell Phone Cancer Risk...

Using a cell phone does not appear to increase the risk of developing certain types of brain cancer, the largest study of its kind has concluded. Analysis of more than 10,000 people by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found no relationship between years of use and risk.
There is no known biological mechanism by which mobiles could cause cancer, but there has been public concern. It is hoped this study will allay some anxieties, as research continues.


The overall rate of brain cancer has not risen in countries where use has long been prevalent - like Sweden, and studies have mostly found no evidence of an increased risk. This latest research is consistent with this.
The 20m euro Interphone study, which received some funding from the mobile industry, involved more than 5,000 men and women from 13 countries who had been diagnosed with one of two types of brain cancer - glioma and meningioma - between 2000 and 2004.
These cancers, both rare, were judged to be among the most likely to be influenced by phone use. The patients were asked to record their cell phone usage, and then the results were compared with adults of similar age, sex and background who did not have the disease.
Some had been using their phones for more than a decade, making this one of the longest-ranging studies to date.

In fact, most regular users - defined as people who made use of their phone at least once a week - appeared to have a lower risk of brain cancer than those who rarely used a phone. The report authors stressed however this was unlikely to be down to any protective effect of phone use, and more a quirk of the study. This is consistent with published biological studies, which have not established any effect of exposure to radiation from mobile phones at a cellular level nor found a mechanism by which cancer could be caused.


"This study cannot answer whether there are long-term risks beyond fifteen years, nor would it have been able to pick up much, much smaller risks," says Professor Swerdlow. "But if there was a large and immediate risk we would have seen it.
"Whether it is worth doing more research, that is a question for society. These are expensive studies, and there are many other things in the world that should be investigated.
"It is society which has to answer the question of how long you continue to investigate something that does not have a biological basis."

There were however reports of some differences within the research team as to how best to interpret the data, and the authors do say that further analysis of long-term, heavy use is in order. A prospective study was in fact launched last month to examine the long term effects of cell phone use. Cosmos, the cohort study on mobile communications, will recruit 250,000 and follow them for as long as 30 years. I'm not sure it warrants a thirty year study when there are so many more worthy studies. Why not study alternative fuels so we don't have another BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?

79 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:27:00 PM

    Scientists are studying everything from A-Z and they should be putting their efforts into something worthwhile.
    We are destroying everything around us and in 30 years at the rate we're going , we won't be here...nuff said.

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  2. PIC, I see it says one comment under the phone post but your comment has not shown up on my commputer. Maybe we are having the same problem as the other night.

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  3. Anonymous9:43:00 PM

    Hi PIC...how you doing? Hope Brian / Nana's coughs are better.
    Hope everything went okay today and you are doing swell.

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  4. Anonymous9:49:00 PM

    I don't know what's going own...
    I commented on the spieces post also..and so did Lina..

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  5. Okay PiC I got your first comment. It just came up but not the later ones.

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  6. Try under the Papua post PIC.

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  7. Anonymous10:02:00 PM

    Hi PIC...I see we have 7 comments maybe they will show up soon.

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  8. Anonymous10:19:00 PM

    I see you here

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  9. I can see you now PIC. Have you gone to bed??

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  10. Anonymous10:28:00 PM

    No I'm here

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  11. This is a deliberate plot to drive us crazy. It is certainly making me frustrated..

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  12. HI, how are you? You just popped out of nowhere.

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  13. Anonymous10:29:00 PM

    This damn thing better be good because I have something to tell you about DC..

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  14. What's new with DC??

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  15. Anonymous10:31:00 PM

    I think they are working on it..at the top it says your comment have been saved and may take a moment to get to the original post but will drive you crazy.

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  16. Anonymous10:34:00 PM

    I was nosing around in Gil's stuff and DC may want to jump-start his Gerta films here and wanted to know when would be the best time to talk.

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  17. Anonymous10:35:00 PM

    nan says she has a small article about CSI:Miami chiff hanger for next week and she will get it to me.

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  18. 'Holy Shit in a Shoebox!'This could get pretty interesting for you girl.It pays off to poke around in your old man's stuff.That guy never gives anything away.

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  19. Anonymous10:37:00 PM

    That's CSI:Miami cliff-hanger.

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  20. You might find yourself fixing dinner for old DC.Maybe Amina would like the pink cake.

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  21. I love that you're nosy...HA!So am I.

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  22. But your hubby's secret stuff is much more interesting than mine.

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  23. Anonymous10:41:00 PM

    If he do come here You and I will have the low-down..WOW..I'm a nosey little bitch, if he come here Hil may not handle it personal but the staff likes me and his secretary is really nice.

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  24. Anonymous10:44:00 PM

    You know I will be nice to her and pick her brains if she has any. I asked him about DC and he said if he come here his firm would handle him.

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  25. Won't we have some fun if Gil handles DC's business.

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  26. I want you to count the freckles on his nose.

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  27. Anonymous10:47:00 PM

    I don't know if it's secert or not...he says when he come home he like to leave work at the office.
    I know he better not have another woman and if he has any kids beside mine they better be over 10-years-old...[giggles]

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  28. Does Gil know him well .Did they know each other as kids?

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  29. Anonymous10:48:00 PM

    Would you believe I have a post in drafts about a man trying to sell his baby for beer?

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  30. I don't think You have to worry about other women past or present and you know if there were other kids he and Dad would have kept them whatever it took.

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  31. Anonymous10:51:00 PM

    They know each other I don't think very well , Gil was born in Reno and DC was born in Queens..I know for sure Gil don't have respect for him...He says if DC wanted to be a player he should have stayed single until he was ready to settle down with one woman.

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  32. Your first comment was wise. In thirty years no one will even care if cell phones cause cancer. We'll be too busy trying to find sources of pottable water and oxygen.

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  33. Anonymous10:55:00 PM

    You are so right about Dad..when I was raising hell about Gil in L.A. dad told me I could whatever I wanted to do he would stand behind me 100% but I wasn't going to take his grands..I told him I would rub him and his son out those are my babies and he said my son put them in the oven.

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  34. I think Gil pegged him rather nicely. He substituted a nice word 'player' for asshole.

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  35. Take Dad's word at face value. You would have a hell of a fight on your hands if you and Gil separated.

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  36. Anonymous10:59:00 PM

    Since I met you I have found a lot more things that's more important than a damn cell phone...
    People will continue to have cancer, it's in the food /water and everyday things we encounter each day.

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  37. I get the feeling that if you are with them, they'll do anything for you but if you are against them then you have made an implacable enemy and you should watch your back.

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  38. Anonymous11:03:00 PM

    Gil ask me when we first got together was I sure about him because it wasn't going to no separating and no fighting we was equals an partners.

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  39. You're so right about the cancer.It's in everything.The earth we walk on and the air we breathe.The scientists of the world should make a concerted effort to save the planet.That should be the number one priority.

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  40. Anonymous11:08:00 PM

    You got that right about dad and aunt Mae and their kids, but like I told Dad once he's to never jump in my business...dad looked at me and said you will make my son a good wife and I'm proud of you, keep that spirit, you are a true "Tumincello."

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  41. Gil strikes a hard bargain but a fair one. I hope he always honors it. I believe he will. DC couldn't be more different if he tried. I think when he stands at the alter making his vows he has his fingers crossed behind his back and he Knows already that he'll cheat and lie.

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  42. Anonymous11:12:00 PM

    babies are born with cancer...and like you say they should be helping BP with the oil spill...I tell you sweetie is bad and will get worse before it gets better, we are going to lose a lot of coastline all the way to Florida and who knows where else.

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  43. I thought your name was spelled Tuminello.

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  44. Anonymous11:17:00 PM

    You know it's all about money just like they are looking into where the money went in Haiti.

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  45. I'm glad they are investigating where the relief money went in Haiti. They are known for corrupt officials there.

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  46. Anonymous11:19:00 PM

    It is spelled Tuminello...all shit I spelled it tumincello..hahaha my bad.

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  47. Either way it still looks and sounds Italian.

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  48. Anonymous11:22:00 PM

    Money was sent from all over the world and supplies also and most people still don't have any, they are also looking into the Red Cross. Everyone is blaming the other.

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  49. Anonymous11:26:00 PM

    Dad's grandfather came over on the boat and his dad and DC's grandmother was born here, it was 4 it was four brothers. Charles[DC] mama and Dad's daddy was sisters and brothers,dad and charles is first cousins.

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  50. That is so sad to hear. The poor people. Some of them got no medical aid and lost arms and legs.Why is the world becoming that way??

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  51. Anonymous11:31:00 PM

    The Italians is not the big dogs now, back then they was gentlemen but now they is just a shadow of the old guys, it's the Russians now that's running everything.

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  52. Anonymous11:34:00 PM

    "WHY" you ask.. everyone is out for themselves and damn the little man.

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  53. It seems a bit odd that DC's dad would marry such an Irish looking girl and that DC and his sister look nothing like the Italian side of the family.DC looks like a leprechaun.

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  54. Anonymous11:37:00 PM

    PIC...to tell the truth I really didn't know what I was getting myself into and when I found out it was to late I was in love but we didn't get married until I was about 3/4 months pregnant with Jill.

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  55. We find up here that it's the Chinese who are the real thugs in our big cities.And our French Canadians have their own mob too. Down in Florida the French Canadian mob is pretty strong. They are about drugs.

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  56. Anonymous11:41:00 PM

    [giggles] you are so funny, she has red hair also and all of charles other kids are dark dad says..DC was 18 months and Joyce was about 8/9 months, do you think he smelled a rat or dead cat somewhere, it's strange he would just turned his back on them, I've asked Dad but he don't know.

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  57. I think that it would take a strong woman to live with Gil and Dad and put up with all their relatives. So you are well placed. And it would take a strong man to live among your relatives so Gil was a good choice.

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  58. Anonymous11:43:00 PM

    Yes the ones in Florida is some pretty bad boys but I hear they don't bother you without a cause.

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  59. Anonymous11:45:00 PM

    We have a bunch of fools here and the cops is taking them out, it was pretty quiet here util Katrina but it's really bad in Houston.

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  60. He walked out on two babies and his son did the same thing 52 years later.

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  61. Anonymous11:46:00 PM

    How is Nana and Brian's cough? Better I hope.

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  62. The guy woke up one day and looked at his kids and they looked like aliens to him and his wife looked like a bloodless corpse.So the guy ran like a bat out of hell.

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  63. Anonymous11:49:00 PM

    Don't forget Greta DC's daughter, DC left Liza before the baby was born and she's 3 now.

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  64. Truthfully there's no excuse for turning your back completely on two babies. What did they do to offend himm? Who the fuck is he anyway. What does he do for a living?

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  65. Anonymous11:51:00 PM

    I think you you hit the nail on the head. I always thought the kids would be like one with the darker genes look at all 3 of DC kids, they are dark.

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  66. Anonymous11:55:00 PM

    He was a reporter or editor for a newspaper Newsweek or some paper in N'Y. I can't find anything on him but just a little under DC's BIO.

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  67. Darker genes are said to be stronger. But once in a while the fair ones take over.

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  68. Anonymous11:59:00 PM

    Maybe that's what started DC on his path trying to show his dad how good he was. That's not an excuse for hurting all the women...maybe his dad's a shit head ass-hole to and DC got it honest.

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  69. Anonymous12:02:00 AM

    I have a post in drafts about a guy trying to sell his baby for beer. Will you post it for me?

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  70. Anonymous12:05:00 AM

    The meeting are coming along slowly and they have quieted down a lot and Gil have to go to court tomorrow and I will have a good time in his office.

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  71. I think I'll let you get to bed, Pumpkin.I'm glad I got to talk to you. You are a part of my nightly ritual.
    Have a comfy cosy night. The daffodils are dying now but they cheered me up and I found I could sleep better after the first time I saw them.It's funny where you can take comfort in life. You helped me keep up my morale also through my recent bad times.I thank you for that. So we will meet again.When you are out to dinner with DC, I'll be the lady hiding behind the potted palm taking pictures and giggling.Luv...PIC

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  72. Anonymous12:07:00 AM

    We spent the whole night trying to figure out what was going on...I think you need to get some rest, you had a full day and here is hoping Brian and Nana's cough is better.

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  73. I saw the 'selling the baby' post. WTF is he thinking??

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  74. They are both better today but Brian is still grumpy and he snarled at me so I am now giving him the cold shoulder.He'll be humble tomorrow and I'll forgive him.

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  75. As you can see we had the same thought at the same time again...HA!

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  76. Anonymous12:14:00 AM

    I'm glad I was here and gald I was of some help...yes it's strange where and what we find comfort in.
    I understood where you said the daffidols spoke to you because the same thing happens to me and I just stopped telling people because they think I'm crazy or making it up...but stranger things have happen.

    Sweetie dreams and you have a great nite snuggle up to the Rock...
    Goodnight sweetie.
    GOODNITE...HUGS& KISSES....PIC
    Kiss the "ROCK."

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  77. Anonymous12:20:00 AM

    PS: Post the baby post for me ...thankyou...
    I will put the CSI post in Drafts for you to see before It's posted, I want it to be good the loonies may still be lurking around.

    NITE again...HUGS&KISSES...PIC

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  78. Anonymous11:12:00 PM

    Stumbleupon

    Dr. Vini Khurana conducted a review of 465 studies, 23 case-control studies, which involved 37,916 participants (12,344 patient cases and 25,572 controls), were included in the report, published in 2009. His analysis found compared with never or rarely having used a mobile phone, the odds ratio for overall use was significantly greater for malignant and benign tumors in a meta-analysis of all 23 studies.

    Mobile phone use of 10 years or longer was associated with a risk of tumors in 13 studies reporting this association. Also, additional analysis revealed the same findings in smaller groups.

    The current study found that there is possible evidence linking mobile phone use to an increased risk of tumors from a meta-analysis of low-biased case-control studies. Prospective cohort studies providing a higher level of evidence are needed.

    Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.

    Dr. Khurana’s study is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks. The debate regarding the health effects of low-intensity electromagnetic radiation from sources such as power lines, base stations, and cell phones has recently been reignited.

    The results indicate that using a cell phone for more than ten years approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with a brain tumor on the same side of the head as that preferred for cell phone use. The data achieved statistical significance for glioma and acoustic neuroma but not for meningioma.

    It draws on growing evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

    Dr. Khurana concluded that mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.

    He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that “there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors”. He believes this will be “definitively proven” in the next decade.

    Noting that malignant brain tumors represent “a life-ending diagnosis”, he adds: “We are currently experiencing an unchecked and dangerous situation.” He fears that “unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps”, the incidence of malignant brain tumors and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.

    “It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking,” says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke.

    Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.

    In 2008, the French government warned against the use of cell phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimize handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.

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