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The study, conducted by Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, showed that those who started using a cell phone before the age of 20 were five-times more likely to develop glioma, a type of cancer that begins in the brain or spine (parts of the central nervous system). Why the higher likelihood? The researchers explain that because children's skulls tend to be thinner, their brains are more susceptible to the radiation emitted from cell phones.
Meanwhile, those who started using cell phones in their 20s have "only" twice the average shot of coming down with this cancer. Hardell claims to have also found a link between use of normal in-home wireless phones in kids, indicating a four-times increase in risk.
Unfortunately, the details of the study aren't available at this time, including the number of kids who participated in this study, so forgive us if we're not wholly convinced just yet. But, if you were looking for another excuse to not get your tween a mobile yet, you're welcome. [From: The Independent, via textually.org]
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Subscribe to commentsMistySep 23rd 2008 9:07PM
Prove it's the cell phones...what about all the other forms of radiation that are out there in the air? They come from radio and TV transmitters, high voltage power lines, microwave ovens, TV sets, various kinds of radios, microwaves, radar, sonar, cordless telephones, and who knows what all else? When I was younger it was believed that the radiation coming from a TV set would give you cancer so you didn't dare sit too close to one, and that looking at one when you had measles or chicken pox would make you go blind, so with the air so full of different forms of electronic emissions, how could they possibly know WHICH one, if any of them, cause a problem?
todd lissnerSep 24th 2008 10:35AM
previous studys showed no link by the way.
ernest freundSep 24th 2008 3:00PM
@Misty
Obviously you're not versed in the process of scientific inquisition. In any particular cancer case it certainly may be difficult to pinpoint a culprit yet if LARGE populations are studied and it is found that one group is 5x more susceptible, then clearly there is a link, whether direct or indirect.