Study links cell phone use to cancer

[Aeron]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214144349.htm

This study is not exactly a new one but its results are still quite harrowing.

Those who used a cell phone heavily on the side of the head where the tumor developed were found to have an increased risk of about 50% for developing a tumor of the main salivary gland (parotid), compared to those who did not use cell phones.

Would you stop/change your cell phone habits if you believed cell phone usage caused cancer?

 

[Flanders]

Would you stop/change your cell phone habits if you believed cell phone usage caused cancer?

Not before sueing the **** out of Nokia!

 

[Flanders]

(fine print on every cellphone ad)

DANGER: EXCESSIVE PHONING CAN LEAD TO CANCER!

 

[Aeron]

My uncle died of a brain tumor related to cell phone use and I've got a parotid lump (salivary gland tumor), also due to cell phone use. Have any facial lumps checked out immediately and remember, loudspeaker is there for a reason. The lawyer who made $ 1.5 billion from the tobacco settlement in America filed suit against major cell phone companies in the year 2000. But no word on the case so far. Probably got bribed off with another billion.

Let's face it, this will be the biggest public health issue since smoking if there is proven to be a link. And every single cell phone company as well as the wonderful FDA (there is no link between cell phone usage and brain cancer) will get ****ed. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. However, those companies will also be willing to band together and spend hundreds of billions on legal defence, burying any possible "sue-er" under decades of paperwork.

 

[PeterCH]

My uncle died of a brain tumor related to cell phone use and I've got a parotid lump (salivary gland tumor), also due to cell phone use. Have any facial lumps checked out immediately and remember, loudspeaker is there for a reason. The lawyer who made $ 1.5 billion from the tobacco settlement in America filed suit against major cell phone companies in the year 2000. But no word on the case so far. Probably got bribed off with another billion.

Let's face it, this will be the biggest public health issue since smoking if there is proven to be a link. And every single cell phone company as well as the wonderful FDA (there is no link between cell phone usage and brain cancer) will get ****ed. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. However, those companies will also be willing to band together and spend hundreds of billions on legal defence, burying any possible "sue-er" under decades of paperwork.

I think the FDA is federally protected. It's the same as not being able to sue the US government if they put you in jail but follow all the rules, eg all these cases of people found guilty of rape being released because new DNA evidence proves they were not the guilty party. So no, FDA will be safe, as well the FCC. Besides if there is no science pointing conclusively to a link at this stage, there are no grounds for lawsuits unless purposeful cover ups were performed.

At this time there is still no clear conclusive evidence, or guidelines and alternatives (shielded handsfree kits) would be out very quickly.
But to be safe, limit cell phone usage, use the speaker and a handsfree kit if possible or connect your phone to your car via BT each time.

 

[wrathex]

No, I won't stop using it, but I'm not a constant user and spend very little time using my cellphone.

What longterm effect does sitting with your head next to a (electro magnetic fields ) pc tower have?

My guess is that our environment is full of new modern hazards we know little about at this time.

There is an unseen price attached to technology that I guess we are willing to hazard for the sake of moving forward.

 

[Serqet]

I am not trying to put a damper on things here but after reading that article it doesn't seem to me as though the scientists isolated all other variable factors/common denominators and only really asked the subjects about their cellphone usage.

I don't debate that there might be an increased risk involved but i still don't feel anything has been scientifically proven without a shadow of a doubt.

It has to be noted that we have a number of gadgets now whereby one does not have to hold the cellphone to your ear.

I also think it's unfair to blame the cellphone companies. It's like smoking, if you feel it is bad for you then don't do it.

 

[Fudzy]

Aeron = marine1?

 

[Alan]

No, I won't stop using it, but I'm not a constant user and spend very little time using my cellphone.

What longterm effect does sitting with your head next to a (electro magnetic fields ) pc tower have?

My guess is that our environment is full of new modern hazards we know little about at this time.

There is an unseen price attached to technology that I guess we are willing to hazard for the sake of moving forward.

True. Now the risk is cancer from cellphones instead of plague from fleas or getting eaten alive by predators when we leave the cave