> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a message dated 3/31/2006 6:28:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > A total 85 of these 905 cases were so-called high users of mobile > > phones, that is they began early to use mobile and, or wireless > > telephones and used them a lot," the study said. > > "The study also shows that the rise in risk is noticeable for tumors on > > the side of the head where the phone was said to be used," it added. > > Kjell Mild, who led the study, said the figures meant that heavy users > > of mobile phones, for instance of who make mobile phone calls for 2,000 > > hours or more in their life, had a 240 percent increased risk for a > > malignant tumor on the side of the head the phone is used. > > The relationship between location of tumor and side of phone use would have > to be more than noticable. It should be incredibly strong. For instance > radiation therapy can induce brain tumors but it occurs in the radiiation field and > at the site where the radiation enters the skull. The inverse square rule would > have to hold. In addition there has to be a mechanism by which the radiation > causes mutations. I no of no evidence that the energy associated with cell > phone use can cause cellular damage in particular since it must first penetrate > the skin and skull. I think this is like the famous power line causing cancer > myth. While there certainly can be unknown effects these effects cannot be > mystical. If brain tumors are more frequent then there must be energy that can > cause mutations. This energy must get to the brain cells in the way that all > energy does; that is it must obey the rules of physics.
<<http://www.mccmedia.com/pipermail/brin-l/Week-of-Mon-20041011/008449.h tml>> "Acoustic neuromas are slow-growing noncancerous tumors that develop on a nerve linking the brain and the inner ear." ""We looked at DNA damage in animals, not in humans, and found that cell phone radiation can damage DNA," he said. The body's immune system has the ability to repair DNA breaks, but sometimes it can make a mistake and cause a mutation, which could be the first step toward cancer, Lai said." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
