Cellphone increase brain cancer risk in kids

[Szymon]

Kids and teenagers today are at an increased risk of developing brain cancer if they use mobile phones, according to an alarming new research.
Conducted by Swedish boffins, the study found that kids are five times more likely to get brain cancer due to mobile use.

According to experts, the research raises fears that today’s young people may suffer an “epidemic” of the disease in later life.

The study, headed by Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro was presented at the Royal Society by the Radiation Research Trust.

“People who started mobile phone use before the age of 20 had more than five-fold increase in glioma, a cancer of the glial cells that support the central nervous system,” Hardell found in his study.

The extra risk to young people of contracting the disease from using the cordless phone found in many homes was almost as great, at more than four times higher, reported The Independent.

Those who started using mobiles young, Hardell added, were also five times more likely to get acoustic neuromas – benign but often disabling tumours of the auditory nerve, usually causing deafness.

By contrast, people who were in their twenties before using handsets were only 50 per cent more likely to contract gliomas and just twice as likely to get acoustic neuromas.

“This is a warning sign and it is very worrying,” Hardell cautioned. “We should be taking precautions.”

The research also showed that adults who have used handsets for more than 10 years are much more likely to get gliomas and acoustic neuromas.

[TheGreatOne]

yes this article is really meaning full people sholud think about this...

[Electro]

No, cause at that age one cannot handle this costly cell phones and one would not take any risk of giving the mobile in their child's hand and risk his life

[SreeKanth]

My answer is NO. Because its not only harmful but also it diverts their mind away from studies also.

[Yogesh]

I dont think Cell phone is such an important for teenagers. Atleast till the age of 16 when they are in their High Schools. Once they are promoted to colleges and higher studies, they require to contact various people or colleagues for different genuine purposes, or he may require to go places where a cell phone is necessary for contacts. Untill then, for teenagers below 16, cell phone is just a gadget for gaming and funny purposes.

[Rob Dizzle]

I don't think so, Because research which is presented by Professor Lennart Hardell has not undergone scientific peer review .

[Raaj]

No , Because they are using phone just for fashion.

[tyuivbn]

People should not talk for a long time using a mobile phone.

[Szymon]

LONDON: Swedish researchers have found memory impairment in rats exposed to cellphone radiation
for two hours every week for more than a year.

The rats subjected to a memory test were released into a box with four objects. These objects were changed on two occasions and their position was also altered both the times. The actual test trial was the third occasion. This time the rats encountered two of the objects from the first occasion and two of the objects from the second.

The rats, used as control, spent more time exploring the objects from the first occasion, which they considered more interesting since they had not seen them for some time. The experiment rats, on the other hand, evinced a lesser pronounced difference in interest.

Henrietta Nittby and her supervisor Leif Salford, of the neurosurgery division of Lund University, Sweden, believe that the findings may be related to the team's earlier findings, that microwave radiation from cellphones can affect the so-called blood-brain barrier. This is a barrier that protects the brain by preventing substances circulating in the blood from penetrating into the brain tissue and damaging nerve cells.

Source: The Times Of India - 8 Dec 2008