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The Swedish study, the largest ever conducted on the hazards of cellphones, points to an alarming trend: cell phone use increases the risk ofcancer, and tumors in young people under the age of 20. (For a comprehensivelisting of additional recent studies on the health risks of cell phones go towww.mybiopro.com/awengrove )
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Today's young people may suffer an "epidemic" of the disease in laterlife. At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, asdo more than 40 percent of primary schoolchildren. And in the United States,even more teenagers are hooked up to cell phones.
Last week the European Parliament voted by 522 to 16 to urge ministersacross Europe to bring in stricter limits for exposure to radiation frommobile and cordless phones, Wi-fi and other devices, partly because childrenare especially vulnerable to them.
Studies like the Swedish study have finally prompted hearings by theUnited States Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and GovernmentReform Committee/ The Committee announced on Tuesday their beginningexamination of the link between tumors and cell phone use.
Children are more at risk because their brains and nervous systems arestill developing and because -- since their heads are smaller and their skullsare thinner -- the radiation penetrates deeper into their brains. (For moreinformation about the hazards of cell phones and ways to reduce the risk fromcell phones go to www.mybiopro.com/awengrove)
Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Swedenheaded the Swedish study. Professor Hardell told the recent conference that"people who started mobile phone use before the age of 20 had more thanfive-fold increase in glioma," a cancer of the glial cells that support thecentral nervous system.
The extra risk to young people of contracting the disease from using thecordless phone found in many homes was almost as great, at more than fourtimes higher.
Those who started using mobiles young, he added, were also five times morelikely to get acoustic neuromas, benign but often disabling tumours of theauditory nerve, which usually cause deafness.
By contrast, people who were in their twenties before using handsets wereonly 50 per cent more likely to contract gliomas and just twice as likely toget acoustic neuromas.
According to Hardell, "Children under 12 should not use mobiles except inemergencies and that teenagers should use hands-free devices or headsets andconcentrate on texting. At 20 the danger diminishes because then the brain isfully developed.
He admits, that the hazard to children and teenagers may be greater eventhan his results suggest, because the results of his study do not show theeffects of their using the phones for many years. Most cancers take decades todevelop, longer than mobile phones have been on the market.
In the United States, David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Healthat the State University of New York -- who attended the conference -- said:"We may be facing a public health crisis in an epidemic of brain cancers as aresult of mobile phone use."
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SOURCE Awen Grove
