Radiation From Mobile Phones To Release The Epidemic Of Brain Tumors

A new survey of more than 100 studies on the safety of mobile phones has concluded that cellular devices are ready to cause an epidemic of brain tumors that will kill more people than smoking or asbestos.


The review was carried out neurosurgeon Vini Khurana, who received over 14 awards in the last 16 years, which made headlines around the world for its warnings. He urged the industry to immediately seek to reduce human exposure to radiation from mobile phones.

According to Khurana, the study shows that prolonged use of cell phones, more than 10 years, can double the risk of developing brain cancer. Although several studies have shown that there is no such risk, Khurana said that most of these studies only examined the short-term use. But because a brain tumor can take up to 10 years of development, studies without a long follow-up of largely meaningless.

"There is a large and growing evidence of an association between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors," Khurana said, a link that will be "definitively proven" within 10 years.

Khurana urged people to reduce the use of mobile phones, including cell phones. He also urged industry to act immediately to reduce exposure to radiation devices.

While mobile phones can save lives in certain emergency situations, Khurana said, brain cancer is "a diagnosis of end of life."

"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader implications for public health than asbestos and smoking," Khurana said. If one billion people smoke worldwide snuff, three times more than now use mobile phones.

Smoking is responsible for five million deaths each year.

While independent newspapers in the United Kingdom study Khurana describes as "the indictment yet published of the most devastating of health risks" of mobile phones, his warning is not the first. A Swedish study in 2006 found that people who used mobile phones for an hour or more each day had a higher risk of 240 percent of brain tumor than nonusers. The tumors were significantly more likely to develop towards the head where the phone was most often used.

Inspired partly by these investigations, France has warned against mobile phone use (especially in children), Germany urges people to reduce their use of cell phones, and the European Agency for the environment called for reducing radiation exposure cell.

The mechanisms by which mobile phones increase cancer risk are not well understood, but several possibilities are suspected. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is known for the heat directly to the head and brain, and can also cause thermoelectric effects on cells and DNA. According to Khurana, even bluetooth devices and unshielded headsets simply turn the head of the aerial bombardment of self-radiation. Children and thinner skulls than adults, are particularly at risk.

"EMR rays general cause irritation, concentration errors, and in many cases, even increased in the cells that cause cancer, says Dr. Rajeev Ranjan, New Delhi neurologist. Radiation can also interfere with the functioning of medical devices such pacemaker.

EMR also "affect [s] the DNA and cause [s] problems in cell recovery and cell growth," said New Delhi neurologist Anshu Rohatgi.

Khurana warned that if immediate measures are not taken, mobile phones will soon be responsible for a massive public health crisis.

"We are in a reactive situation uncontrolled and dangerous," he said.

Since the use of mobile phones began in the mid-1980s, and it may take up to 20 years to diagnose a malignant solid brain, he said, "during the 2008-2012 period, we will have a certain amount follow-up finally begins to see the effects of this technology worldwide, the incidence of brain cancer. "

"Malignant brain tumor incidence and mortality will be observed globally to rise within a decade from now," Khurana said, "when it may be too late to intervene significantly."