Mobile phone and cordless phone use and the risk for glioma

[quietdynamics]

I was searching for something else and saw this.

Mobile phone and cordless phone use and the risk for glioma – Analysis of pooled case-control studies in Sweden, 1997–2003 and 2007–2009
Lennart Hardellemail, Michael Carlberg
Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Örebro SE-701 85, Sweden
Received: April 16, 2014; Received in revised form: September 25, 2014; Accepted: October 16, 2014; Published Online: October 28, 2014

Introduction

There has been a large worldwide increase during the last decade in the use of wireless communication, with greater exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF). This has caused increasing concern for health risk. During use of both mobile and cordless phones, the brain is the main target of RF-EMF. The highest exposure is on the same side of the brain when the handheld phone is used (ipsilateral), whereas the contralateral side is less exposed [1]. Due to the smaller head size, thinner skull bones and higher brain conductivity, a child absorbs higher rates than adults
http://www.pathophysiologyjournal.com/article/S0928-4680%2814%2900064-9/fulltext

[Head2Toe]

I've heard of similar studies over the years.  I'm not sure what the truth is, but I hate talking on the telephone and avoid it whenever possible at work and at home.  My mobile device is usually dead unless I know I'm going to need it at a specific time, and our wireless telephone (attached to our land line at home) is rarely used. 

[aussie mum]

This has particularly worried me as I know someone who died of a brain tumor, she was only 50.

Answering phone calls is a major part of my job. My boss thought it might be useful to have a cordless headset.
Then I thought about it...
8hrs a day I would have this electronic device attached to my head that was continually searching for a signal, whether there was calls coming in or not.

I decided it was a risk that I would prefer not to take.

We do use cordless phones at home, but we don't have a base unit in our bedroom any more (I'd rather get up to answer an occasional phone call than have the unit turned on next to my head for another 8hrs or so every night).

Some people might say I'm over-reacting to the perceived dangers, but in the past they said that about asbestos, smoking, sun exposure so I'd rather not take the risk.
 

[litliwlowa]

but in the past they said that about asbestos, smoking, sun exposure so I'd rather not take the risk.

agreement from me on that for sure!!

[meow]

We have a plug-in-curly wired land line by the bed--- because when the power goes out, IT WORKS.

I know a little bit about this subject, since my husband was part of the rise and fall of the mobile telecommunications industry, from the late 80s until 2005. This was something he was extremely concerned about.

Decades of studies show very little-- if any-- correlation. There has not been a statistically significant rise in brain cancers since the wide use of cell phones began 20 years ago. The early models (like the old Bendix King, aka the "brick") did not contain the microwave technology as well as  the second generation. Ten generations later, you really have nothing to worry about.

It's not like asbestos or smoking, which everyone knew was a killer. The term "coffin nails" came into use in the 1880s. We knew about asbestos in the 1960s.

If anything, this is more like the studies on saccharine in lab rats. If you feed a lab rat the equivalent of a pound of Sweet and Low a day, it will develop bladder cancer at double the rate of a non-saccharined rat. The normal rate is less than 1 in 3000, so the poor saccharined rats now have 2 chances in 3000.