Educational Cell Phone Ebook

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In March of this year, Dr Vini G. Khurana, an Australian Neurosurgeon, made
news headlines declaring that, based on his research of the literature, the
long-term use of cell phones was leading to brain tumors and was more
dangerous to health than smoking cigarettes [13].

The relationship between exposure to electromagnetic fields (ELFs) and brain
tumor incidence has long been a subject of concern and research in the
neurosciences and oncology. However, until this last year, most studies have
failed to show a clear relationship between cell phone use and brain tumors
[17].

Then in April of 2007, Lennart Hardell, a professor of oncology and cancer
epidemiology at the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, along with 4
other authors published an article using case-controlled and cohort studies
that clearly demonstrates that the use of cell phones for 10 years or more
is associated with an increased risk for the development of glioma and
acoustic neuroma ipsilateral to the side where the phone was used [3].

Subsequently, in April of this year, the same authors published a meta-analysis of several studies on the topic and also concluded that there is a positive relationship between long-term cell phone use and ipsilateral glioma and acoustic neuroma [4].

Needless to say, such findings are alarming. Cell phones are ubiquitous in our society, and the numbers and use of such devices have increased exponentially since being introduced in the mid-1980s. Furthermore, cell phone use by teenagers and even preteens has also grown to become common place.