Frequent Cell Phone Use Increases Cancer Risk by 50 Percent And Can't Be Good For Eyes

 Frequent cell phone use probably isn't good for any part of the brain -- or the head. It may take several more decades before we fully understand this important issue, but my hunch is that minimizing my use of a cell phone is a smart thing to do. During my pursuit of regeneration in my optic nerves I need every possible edge I can give myself. Given that most experts would give me no chance of regenerating my optic nerves, I certainly do not want to diminish whatever small chance I may have by bombarding my head with potentially harmful radiation. I try to use my cell phone only for emergencies. As a matter of fact, I even turned off the wireless ethernet network in my house. (I set up a wired network instead.) I also do not eat any food cooked in a microwave oven.See the abstract of this research here:http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/kwm325v1

 

Check out what David Gutierrez (Natural News) says on the topic:
July 13, 2008

"Frequent users of cellular phones develop tumors of the parotid gland 50 percent more often than less frequent users, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology."

Researchers found that people who used mobile phones for more than 22 hours each month had a 50 percent higher risk of developing parotid gland tumors.

"Researchers at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel examined data that included 402 cases of benign and 58 cases of malignant tumors of the parotid gland, the largest of the salivary glands. They found that people who used mobile phones for more than 22 hours each month had a 50 percent higher risk of developing parotid gland tumors. This risk increased among users who always held the phone to the same ear, who did not use handheld devices and who lived in rural areas."

Original Contribution from Oxford Journals - American Journal of Epidemiology

Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors—A Nationwide Case-Control Study

Siegal Sadetzki^1,2, Angela Chetrit¹, Avital Jarus-Hakak¹, Elisabeth Cardis³, Yonit Deutch¹, Shay Duvdevani⁴, Ahuva Zultan¹, Ilya Novikov⁵, Laurence Freedman⁵ and Michael Wolf^2,4

¹ Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
² Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
³ Radiation Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
⁴ Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
⁵ Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Correspondence to Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba MedicalCenter, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel

Received for publication March 1, 2007. Accepted for publication October 8, 2007.

The objective of this nationwide study was to assess the association between cellular phone use and development of parotid gland tumors (PGTs). The methods were based on the international INTERPHONE study that aimed to evaluate possible adverse effects of cellular phone use. The study included 402 benign and 58 malignant incident cases of PGTs diagnosed in Israel at age 18 years or more, in 2001–2003, and 1,266 population individually matched controls. For the entire group, no increased risk of PGTs was observed for ever having been a regular cellular phone user (odds ratio = 0.87;p = 0.3) or for any other measure of exposure investigated. However, analysis restricted to regular users or to conditions that may yield higher levels of exposure (e.g., heavy use in rural areas) showed consistently elevated risks. For ipsilateral use, the odds ratios in the highest category of cumulative number of calls and call time without use of hands-free devices were1.58 (95% confidence interval: 1.11, 2.24) and 1.49 (95% confidence interval: 1.05, 2.13), respectively. The risk for contralateral use was not significantly different from 1. A positive dose-response trend was found for these measurements. Based on the largest number of benign PGT patients reported to date, our results suggest an association between cellular phone use and PGTs.

 

case-control studies; cellular phone; head and neck neoplasms; Israel; parotid gland

 

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; PGT, parotid gland tumor; UICC, Union Internationale Contre le Cancer