London – There is a definitive link between long-term cellphone use and brain tumors, the World Health Organization found after a decade-long study.
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The UN agency will soon reveal data that show the devices can cause cancer and will issue a public health message with the findings, The Daily Telegraph of Britain reported.
The groundbreaking results go against beliefs held by many scientists, phone companies, cancer charities — and even the WHO — that cellphone use is safe.
Now, researchers are urging immediate action to limit the risks.
“In the light of a number of studies which, though limited, suggest a possible effect of radio-frequency radiation, precautions are important,” Dr. Elisabeth Cardis, the head of the project told the Telegraph.
Researchers questioned 12,800 people in 13 countries — not including the United States — and talked to tumor sufferers as well as healthy cellphone users.
Researchers in six countries reported a rise in the risk of brain tumors, with one study reporting a 39 percent increase.
A leading cancer organization said it still considered cellphone use safe and had so far seen no reason to change its opinion.
I think one day we will look at cellphones the way we look at cigarettes
Its a very tough situation. Even if you give up your cell, there are still so many people around you who are using them, be it in shul, the grocery, etc…
However, if they can seriously prove this, something drastic will need to be done.
Yidden, wake up!! Don’t say it can’t or won’t happen to me or my children. The Rabbonim should asur all cell phones. Use your hard wired home telephone before it is too late.
I’ve read that a wired headset is not necessarily any better as it can carry the radiation. I don’t know, but I definitely preferred the headset to the phone.
Bluetooth should be much less radiation that is definitely physically separate from the phone. Maybe that is better?