Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation
By Geoffrey Lean

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.

Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.

He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.

Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.

"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.

Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".

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EVERYTHING is dangerous for health.

I've heard this before, though.

But I don't have a cell phone anyway, so...

Fag anyone?

:srkisrle2:

I know phones are held to the head, but the world, towns and cities, homes, everywhere is filled with technology giving off energy and waves in whatever form.

These media scares always focus on little things, they drive in insane!

Exactly, what about laser and frequency waves (don't know the word) going through every part of your body all the time, especially when you're living in an urban area?

Well maybe that's why we're all getting cancer and shit?

I don't know, guess it's hard to prove.

What scientists do know is the relation between pork meet and cancer, jews and muslims who follow strict rules according to food where no pork is allowed, have less chance of having cancer.

Well, whether we do one thing or another, or live a lifestyle doing special things.... it's likely we're gonna get some terminal disease, every one of us..... not to say 'fuck it' but maybe people seem to think that they are supposed to grow old and die peacefully and painlessly with a smile on their faces or something

Maybe it's just a way to not think about death... to talk about all these diseases and what causes them..... maybe to be told what to do to 'prevent' them and feel like they are 'living fuller lives'

I once saw this couple on my telly who ate more than 20 pills per day so they could live 10 years longer than the average person. :manson:

I hope they got knocked over by a bus. NEXT.

I must add, they were both ugly as hell! :chuckle:

:lmao:

That would make my day lol

It's said that the recent dissapearing of bees are due to wires waves because of mobiles. It's horrible.

Is that really true? I read about it but it seemed too unthinkable.

If it's true, it's really terrifying. I saw a bumblebee yesterday and just realised I hadn't seen one in years. :(

It's true, the phones are interfering with the bees' radar or whatever it is they use, so they're not pollenating the flowers as much as they should.

Sometimes I think mobile phones are the worst invention ever, but probably not as bad as gas chambers or bombs.

ethnic cleansing would take ages without those!

:lmao: Oh, you Balkan types.

:sadbitch:

:chuckle:

great news! the mobile phone i can certainly live without. ban it NOW
*lights up a fag and thinks about it*