Dr. Lennart Hardell, MD, oncologist at the University Hospital, Orebro
Sweden, and an expert on cell phone use and brain tumors, believes there
is strong evidence pointing to glioma brain tumors in people who are
heavy users of cell phones over a period of years. Heavy cell phone use
is defined as more than 2000 lifetime hours. Hardell´s
review of studies of cell phone use and brain tumor incidence is found
at: http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/docs/section_10.pdf Hardell says: Long-term use of cell and cordless phones is associated with increased risk
for glioma, a type of malignant brain tumor. For those who
have used a cell phone predominantly on one side of the head
(ipsilateral use) over a period of ten years or more, there is a
consistently elevated risk of glioma. Microwave News has tracked the results of the studies that make
up the 13-country Interphone Project. Several have found an increased
risk of glioma, like the type diagnosed in Senator Ted Kennedy, in
people who used cell phones for 10 years or more. See: http://www.microwavenews.com/docs/SetInterphonefree.pdf The French Interphone Study pointed to increased risk at only 260-467
hours of total lifetime use. It is not the first time the disclosure that a prominent public figure
fighting this deadly diagnosis has raised the question of whether
long-term use of cell phones is linked to brain tumors. The death of
attorney Johnnie L. Cochran prompted his neurosurgeon, Dr. Keith Black
MD of Cedars Sinai Hospital, to make the connection. Black said he
believes there was a relationship between Cochran´s heavy cell phone use
and his death from a glioma in 2005.
