Please note that the results of the Interphone, the largest survey on the risks associated with mobile phones, were published last January 27 in the Journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine and generated many controversies, not only for the interpretation of data, but for conflicts of interest that this study involved, with funding of more than 30% by the telecommunications industry.
The two researchers now believe that it is necessary to take a cautious use of the phone waiting for additional research on the subject.
In particular, they wrote that research on the radiation from mobile phones examined people who had not used the phone a lot.
In particular, the WHO Interphone study, which began in 2000 and finished in 2004, was considered an "average user" who had used the phone for about 100 in all my life, approximately 2 to 2 ½ hours per month.
Interphone defined as "exposed" radiation of mobile phone, even those who had "at least once a week for at least 6 months", that is a ridiculous time. L 'average user who had used it less than 2 minutes to 4-5 minutes per day, and in the most exposed group, there were those who used it 27 minutes a day, a time limited, however, considering the intensive use which they are used today mostly by those who use the phone for work purposes.
Interphone has been criticized both for such selection criteria of users, both for the lack of consideration of the data that users could see the "heavy" have a 50% increase in the risk of developing malignant tumors on the same side of the head where they held the their phone (such ipsilateral tumors).
Another weak Interphone concerns the refusal by a substantial number of non-users of phones initially selected to participate in the study because they are less interested in the aims of the research in relation to habitual users.
The two researchers, and Sadetzki Cardis, in their editorial of February, maintain that it is possible to assess the magnitude and direction of possible misrepresentation of the results of the Interphone study to estimate and, thus, all the effects of mobile phone risk tumors of the head. Believe, in fact, as well as other scientists (for example, the authors report to the head phones and cancer: 15 reasons for concern, science, development, and the truth behind the Interphone study, published in 2009 by the International Collaborative EMF) that the overall direction of the research so far is troubling. According to Professor . Angelo Gino Levis, Professor of Environmental Mutagenesis expert on electromagnetic fields, we must also considearre that less than 5% of the subjects examined by Interphone had completed at least 10 years of latency or continuous use of mobile phones, a period that is considered a minimum since many substances toxic reprocessed from 10 to 30 years to show their carcinogenic potential.
"While awaiting the confirmation or refutation these results by further research, preliminary indications suggest that the increased risk of cancers of the head in those who use it intensely for a long time is reason for concern, "and conclude Cardis Sadetzki. "There are now about more than 4 billion people, including children, using mobile phones. Even a small risk at the individual level to produce a number of tumors and thus become an important public health problem. Simple and inexpensive measures, such as text messages and prefer the hands-free, could substantially reduce exposure to radiation of the brain cell. Until there is, therefore, a definitive answer, we suggest adoazione the use of these precautions, especially in young population. "
Professor. Levis, in a recent letter to the Minister of Health, also the fact that the protocol apprfondito Interphone users of cordless considered as unexposed, whereas it is reported that the radiation emitted by cordless phones, especially when it is running away from the basic which is added when at rest, may exceed in intensity that of a phone, so much so that the Swedish scientist Lennard Hardell has documented a significant increase - up to more than double - the risk of meningiomas and acoustic nerve tumors ( neurinomas) your users in just cordless.
Hardell himself in 2007 had documented a doubling of the risk of brain gliomas and acoustic neuromas among users in the long term (at least 10 years) of cellular or cordless phones. This result was validated in the same year by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology page. Volume 10 of the "Guidelines for brain tumors, with the recommendation to" use caution in the use of mobile phones. "
Source: Washington, DC (Vocus / PRWEB) http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2011/2/prweb8144389.htm
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