NEWS: US cancer boss in mobiles warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7523109.stm

The director of a leading US cancer research institute has sent a
memo to thousands of staff warning of possible higher risks from
mobile phone use.

Ronald Herberman, of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute,
said users should not wait for definitive studies on the risk and
should take action now.

He said children should use mobiles in emergencies only and adults
should try to keep the phone away from the head.

No major academic study has confirmed a link to higher brain-tumour
risks.

Dr Herberman said his warning was based on early findings from
unpublished data.

....

A major six-year research study in the UK said last year that there
were no short-term adverse effects to brain and cell function from
mobile phone use.

However, the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research
Programme said there was a "hint" of a higher cancer risk in the long
term and that its research would look into the effects over a 10-year
period.

Programme chairman Professor Lawrie Challis said: "We can't rule out
the possibility at this stage that cancer could appear in a few
years' time."

....

Recent Danish and French studies also found no increased risk of
cancer.

But a study of 500 Israelis found this year that heavy mobile phone
use might be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary
gland.


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Doesn't really sound like news... just more of, "there is no obvious effect,
and if there is a long term effect, it's quite small."

Quitting driving would reduce your chance of dying by about 1000 times as much
as quitting cell phone use, I estimate.

Joel Koltner wrote:
> Doesn't really sound like news... just more of, "there is no obvious
> effect, and if there is a long term effect, it's quite small."
>
> Quitting driving would reduce your chance of dying by about 1000
> times as much as quitting cell phone use, I estimate.

We know for sure that an average of 135 people die each day in auto
wrecks in the USA alone, but so far, I haven't heard of a single
person on Earth dying as a direct result of Cell Phone Radiation. I
like those odds!!

Tom J

"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7523109.stm

Then keep using that phone Navas. It'll clear up the noise from the
newgroups all that much sooner.

Tom J wrote:
> Joel Koltner wrote:
>
>>Doesn't really sound like news... just more of, "there is no obvious
>>effect, and if there is a long term effect, it's quite small."
>>
>>Quitting driving would reduce your chance of dying by about 1000
>>times as much as quitting cell phone use, I estimate.
>
>
> We know for sure that an average of 135 people die each day in auto
> wrecks in the USA alone, but so far, I haven't heard of a single
> person on Earth dying as a direct result of Cell Phone Radiation. I
> like those odds!!
>
> Tom J


Just keep driving that way and you'll beat them!

Perhaps, but it could, possibly, just maybe, be a typo made by the OP.
Nah, you're right, he must have meant their offices.

"Justin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Bill wrote on [Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:54:57 -0400]:
>> I remember a Law suite a few years ago from a Husband who lost his
>> wife. She
>> had a Brain tumor next to where the phone antenna was.
>> He lost the suite, but who knows...
>
> What's a law suite?
>
> isn't that where Lawyers have their offices?

"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I remember a Law suite a few years ago from a Husband who lost his wife. She
>had a Brain tumor next to where the phone antenna was.

Given a brain tumor, there's about a 50/50 chance of it being on the side of
your head you use your cell phone on, you know?

I'm not surprised he lost the lawsuit -- to win I'd hope he'd have to
demonstrate that cell phones not only pose a significant health hazard, but
also that the carriers knew this fact and attempted to suppress it (like the
tobacco companies did decades back with the smoking/cancer research).

"Gordon Burditt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> When the brain tumor is on the correct side, is right where the
> antenna would be held during a call, is about the size and shape
> of the radiation envelope from the phone, and you can make out the
> cell phone manufacturer's logo on the X-ray of the tumor, then
> you've got a good case.

That would be compelling. :-)

I don't think the O.P. suggested this was the actual case, though.