tailieunhanh - Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours – A Public Health Concern

Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed. • Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body, particularly its electrical organ, the brain, are compounded by numerous other simultaneous long-term exposures including continuous waves from radio and TV transmitter towers, cordless phone base stations, power lines, and wireless/WiFi computing devices | Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours 2008 G. Khurana - All Rights Reserved. Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours - A Public Health Concern Vini Gautam Khurana PhD FRACS 1 Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours 2008 G. Khurana - All Rights Reserved. The completion of this paper on February 7 2008 follows 14 months of objective research by the author involving the critical review of over 100 sources in the recent medical and scientific literature in addition to Press reports and Internet content. This paper represents a systematic and concise yet comprehensive review of this area to date and its findings highlight an emerging global public health concern. 2 Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours 2008 G. Khurana - All Rights Reserved. KEY MESSAGES OF THIS WORK Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed. Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body particularly its electrical organ the brain are compounded by numerous other simultaneous long-term exposures including continuous waves from radio and TV transmitter towers cordless phone base stations power lines and wireless WiFi computing devices. A malignant brain tumour represents a life-ending diagnosis in the vast majority of those diagnosed. There is a significant and increasing body of evidence to date at least 8 comprehensive clinical studies internationally and one long-term meta-analysis for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours. Taken together the data presented below compellingly suggest that the link between mobile phones and brain tumours should no longer be regarded as a myth. Individual and class action lawsuits have been filed in the USA and at least one has already been successfully prosecuted regarding the cell phone-brain tumour link. The incubation time or latency . the time from commencement of regular mobile phone .