My dad died of brain cancer. So when I heard about the new study that say cell phones cause brain cancer, I got miffed. The new study suggests that people who use cell phones for more than ten years are at increased risk for brain cancer.
My dad didn't use a cell phone all that often. And he didn't use one for more than ten years.
Another problem is that the study appears to be suggesting that the brain cancers are slow growing. I have a slow growing cancer - follicular thyroid cancer. I've been treated but never cured. The cancer inside of me isn't large enough to treat. It's not detected on scans. It just shows up in blood work. It increases every year. At the rate of growth, I'll be "ready" to have another treatment in about 3 years. If I didn't have the treatment, I could probably live a good 30 more years anyway.
My dad's cancer killed him 18 months after being detected. And when it was detected, it was very very small.
But there's so many other questions:
1. Why not bone cancer, skin cancer, thyroid cancer, or head and neck cancer? You hold your cell phone in your hand and close to your face. You keep your cell phone in your pocket! Where's the increased prostate, testicular, ovarian and cervical cancers?
2. How much cell phone use causes the brain cancer? An hour a day? A few minutes per day?
3. Are the rates of brain cancer overall increasing? If so, why? Is it because medical technology is better at detecting them? Is it because cancer awareness has increased? Or is it cell phone use?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment