Cardis and colleagues report in Occupational and Environmental Medicine that regular cell phone users were 7% more likely to be diagnosed with glioma and 20% more likely with meningioma, and that the most heavily exposed group was 35% more likely to develop glioma.
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The Cancer-Fighting Spice So Potent - It Even Beat Brain Tumors in Mice...
Mercola reports a Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry study finding curcumin effective against glioblastoma in mice, and says the turmeric compound influences more than 700 genes and has more evidence behind it as cancer support than any other nutrient.
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Cell phones do not raise brain cancer risk in children?
The CEFALO study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found no statistically significant rise in brain cancer risk among children and teens who used cell phones. The article stresses that numerical hints of higher risk remain and a small increase cannot be ruled out.
Lifestyle
New studies link cell phones to brain cancer?
Analysing Interphone data from 13 countries, the study found the heaviest mobile phone users, at 1,640 hours or more, had 40 percent higher glioma risk and 15 percent higher meningioma risk, while the second-heaviest users showed lower risk, which the authors attribute to bias.
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Cellphone use linked again to high risk of brain cancer - new study
Hardell and colleagues report in the International Journal of Oncology that people who used cell phones for ten or more years had a 170 percent higher risk of astrocytoma, and cordless phone users 70 percent. Risk ran highest among those who started before age 20.
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2B or not 2B, mobile phones may boost brain cancer risk
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, category 2B, after more than 30 experts spent eight days reviewing about 30 studies. Berkeley's Joel Moskowitz says the higher-quality studies tend to show a brain cancer link.
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Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
In 1993 David Reynard argued on Larry King's show that cell phone radiation caused his wife's brain tumor, and a Florida court rejected the case as premature. The New York Times revisits what is known nineteen years on, noting cancer may take 50 to 70 years to develop.
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Use this Common Device and Double Your Risk of Brain Cancer…
Mercola summarises Devra Davis's book Disconnect, which gathers studies suggesting cell phone radio-frequency radiation can damage DNA and may contribute to brain tumours in heavy young users, and argues many reassuring studies were industry funded.
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Cell phone use may increase brain cancer risk
A study in the International Journal of Epidemiology found people using cell phones 30 or more minutes a day were 40 percent more likely than the lightest users to develop glioma. News reports called the findings inconclusive, and researchers note brain tumors can take decades to appear.
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Delaney Starcher, 5-yo girl, suffers rare brain cancer
Delaney Starcher, 5, was diagnosed in October 2009 with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a brain-stem tumor that cannot be removed by surgery and carries an average survival of six to nine months. A caringbridge.org post asks readers for prayers and donations toward her treatment.
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WHO will admit cell phones raise brain cancer risk*
London's Daily Telegraph reported the WHO will announce that long-term cell phone use may be linked to elevated risk of some brain cancers, from a 13-country study of 12,800 people that remains inconclusive. A recent meta-analysis of 23 studies found no connection overall.
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Cell phones raise brain cancer risk*
A meta-analysis in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found no link between cell phone use and tumours across all 23 studies, but a 10 to 30 percent higher cancer risk among users when only the eight studies the authors rated high quality were counted.
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