2008 April Fools’ Day: Cancer Commentary Links

April 1, 2008 by Gloria Gamat  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

It’s April Fools’ day. However… in the cancer front, there’s no fool or fooling. Definitely, these aren’t for fools:

Brain cancer fears over heavy mobile phone use

Study: One Sausage Per Day Increases Bowel Cancer Risk by a Fifth

Fasting could help fight cancer

Hope over Tasmanian Devil cancer

Hey…easy on the practical jokes, okay? And don’t be so gullible yourself! He he he. :-P

Mobile Phone Use, No Clear Connection to Brain Cancer

January 30, 2007 by Gloria Gamat  
Filed under Diseases & Conditions

Motorola RAZR V3i Phone (Cingular)There is no clear connection between mobile phone use and malignant brain tumors -gliomas.

Such were the result of a study conducted in five Northern European countries, appearing in the January 19 online version of the International Journal of Cancer.

  • Regular use of a mobile phone, duration of use, or the cumulative number of calls had no effect on the risk.
  • The only indication of a potential effect was found among mobile phone users who had used a mobile phone for at least 10 years. They were found to have a slightly increased risk of a tumour on the side of the head on which they held the phone.

Anssi Auvinen, Research Professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority:

“Even though the results do not indicate that mobile phone use increases the risk of cancer, we need more research data on long-term use.”

I’m not sure if I should be worried or not. But I guess we have to keep note that it’s not mobile phone use alone that would contribute to the development of brain cancers.

Read the full report from STUK/ Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland.


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