Cell Phones and Brain Tumors
Rumors were being spread more than 10 years ago that wireless phones were causing serious medical harm to young students. There was some attempt to ban their usage by students in school classrooms. However, their parents intervened and said that the risks to their children’s brain was not as important as their need to contact them using their cell. There are reports like the one from the International Agency for Research on Cancer that studied the effects of radio frequency electromagnetic fields sent out by wireless tower companies on human brains. They reported an increase in cancer known as glioma amongst those people who used them frequently. Medical institutes and facilities continue to look into the subject to learn more and find out exactly how everything works.
The report continues with the fact that an increase of glioma can be traced directly to the use held close to the brain, next to the ear. Since children have thinner skulls, they are more apt to develop this problem than adults with similar long term usage. The higher incidence of tumors amongst young people who use them doesn’t seem to disturb their parents who continue to pay for their monthly minute plans. In assessing the risks to the positive health of children and adults large companies have the means of distracting from the obvious source of the health risk by citing the fact that other substances are equally harmful and are not banned like cleaning fluid. The bottom line seems to be that people love their hand held devices and are willing to look past these possibilities until there is solid evidence, which seems to make sense after really thinking about it.