Mobile Phone Use 'Linked To Tumour'

The telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-25-2007 | NicFleming

[JennysCool]

Come to think of it, I believe it was!

[Inyo-Mono]

Come to think of it, I believe it was!

I knew it!

[Revolting cat!]

There's a difference between "mobile" phones and cell phones, isn't there?

Yes, there is, thank you for reminding us. Cell phones are devices used in the United States, mobile phones are the same devices used elsewhere.

[Samwise]

If this is true, eventually the roads will be safer..

LOL

[umgud]

They are at least responsible for evolution. Lately I've seen former cell phone users who now have funny plastic things growing right out of their ears. They can even use these things to make phone calls.

[mpstan]

My 23 year old nephew was diagnosed with a level II astrocytoma brain tumor in the area of his right ear last August. Over the last 5 years, he exclusively used a cell phone on the right side of his head. Two craneotomy surgeries later within 2 months, the surgeon thinks they were able to remove between 80-90% of the tumor. I have wondered if there was a cell phone component to this. If it didn't cause the tumor did the cell phone cause the tumor to grow at a faster rate.

[FoxInSocks]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply hang up the phones and talk, since they're all standing next to each other?

[abigailsmybaby]

You forgot embryonic stem cell research.

[VastRWCon]

I would like to add... TALK RADIO and PELOSI BLINKING.

[metmom]

Again? We've been hearing both reports for years.

[D-Chivas]

Good, I hope they all die so we can have our roads, movie theaters, and restaurants back.

[Revolting cat!]

Perfect! These kids would rather be somewhere else, which, if you axe me, is the entire secret of the cell phone mania. Here, it's so booooooring, it's so hard! When they, or any other cell phone maniacs, get to the somewhere else, they'll want to be somewhere else yet, and will pull up their cell phones. This is a restless civilization ever of unsatisfied people, who want to be somewhere else. I mean, you go to places where people are supposed to go to rest, and what do they do? One ringa dingie, two ringa dingies...

[E.Allen]

RF for mobile phones (really rare now) is 3W max. Handhelds are only .6W max (600 mW)

[Vinnie]

I'm smart, I put the cell phone on speaker and drive with it in my lap.

Uh-oh

[blam]

"There's a difference between "mobile" phones and cell phones, isn't there?"

It is all confusing to me, heck, I live in Mobile.

[vetvetdoug]

Overuse of cell phones cause brain tumors? Man, I hate this. There is already a shortage of decent women in the US and this will just make it worse.

[RunningWolf]

Well this may be only one data point of anecdotal evidence, but I know of a man who had brain cancer on the side of the head he always used his phone on.

This was during the transition from the 900mhz phone to the ones we have now.

I do not use the cell phone nearly as much as he did, but the way I see it, is it is just one area I would rather not test.

IOW I will make the call on a cell phone with no ear-mike piece, but if I have one I will use it.

W.

[blam]

Make sure you get a gene switch on your next cell phone.

Gene Switch Makes Tumours Shrink

[Old Professer]

Grant shopping.

[dr_lew]

The man who sickens of his home goes out,
Forth from his splendid halls, and straight- returns,
Feeling i'faith no better off abroad.
He races, driving his Gallic ponies along,
Down to his villa, madly,- as in haste
To hurry help to a house afire.- At once
He yawns, as soon as foot has touched the threshold,
Or drowsily goes off in sleep and seeks
Forgetfulness, or maybe bustles about
And makes for town again. In such a way
Each human flees himself- a self in sooth,
As happens, he by no means can escape;

Lucretius, The Nature of Things, 55 BC