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Brain Cancer
07
Dec

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MOBILE PHONES AND THE RISK OF BRAIN CANCER MORTALITY: A 25‐YEAR CROSS‐COUNTRY ANALYSIS

December 7, 2019
Abstract We investigate the relationship between cell phones and brain cancer using brain cancer death rates for 88 countries between 1990 and 2015 from the World Health Organization and country‐level mobile phone subscription rates from the World Bank. We estimate difference‐in‐difference models including country and year fixed effects and time‐varying country covariates. We find that...
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24
Nov

Leszczynski: presentation at the Iona College

November 24, 2019
Slides of Leszczynski’s lecture at the Iona College – Blyth Performing Arts Centre, Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay, Nov. 24, 2019 (Leszczynski Hawkes Bay New Zealand November 2019). Slide credit: Darius Leszczynski
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18
Nov

[Press release] Brain cancers : 4 times more new cases of glioblastoma in 2018 according to Public Health France

November 18, 2019
18 Nov 2019 In July 2019 (updated in September 2019), the French Public Health Agency “Santé Publique France“, together with the Francim cancer registries, the Hospices Civils de Lyon and the Institut National du Cancer, published national estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in metropolitan France between 1990 and 2018. These are based on the...
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03
Sep

Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields and cancer: How source of funding affects results.

September 3, 2019
Environ Res. 2019 Aug 24;178:108688. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108688. [Epub ahead of print] Carpenter DO1. Author information 1 Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, A Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization, 5 University Place, Room A 217, Rensselaer, NY, N 12144, USA. Electronic address: Dcarpenter@albany.edu. Abstract While there has been evidence indicating that excessive...
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27
Mar

Glioblastomas Have Doubled in Number in England Since Mobile Phones Were Introduced in 1995.

March 27, 2019
Source: https://pandora-foundation.eu/2019/03/19/glioblastomas-have-doubled-in-number-in-england-since-mobile-phones-were-introduced-in-1995/ On October 28, 2018, Microwave News published a report on two research teams from UK, in which each had observed a rise in glioblastoma in England between 1995 and 2014. Glioblastomas are the most malignant brain tumours leading to death in nearly 100% of the cases shortly after detection (1). While incidence and location of the...
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13
May

Mobile Phones,Brain Tumours and Court Cases

May 13, 2018
Brit dad sues Nokia for up to £1million claiming using his mobile phone caused his brain tumour Neil Whitfield, 60, says he developed an acoustic neuroma tumour due to heavy phone use for his job in the late 1990s. By Grace Macaskill 12 MAY 2018 Excerpts: A salesman who suffered a brain tumour is suing...
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07
May

Commentary: Geographic Variations in the Incidence of Glioblastoma and Prognostic Factors Predictive of Overall Survival in US Adults from 2004–2013

May 7, 2018
S M J Mortazavi  –  A commentary on Geographic Variations in the Incidence of Glioblastoma and Prognostic Factors Predictive of Overall Survival in US Adults from 2004–2013 by Xu, H., Chen, J., Xu, H., and Qin, Z. (2017). Front. Aging Neurosci. 9:352. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00352 Xu et al. in their recent article entitled “Geographic Variations in...
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23
Nov

BioInitiative Report: Medical concerns intensify over deadly brain tumors from cell phone use / Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden/November 17, 2017

November 23, 2017,
17 th November 2017:  Press Announcement BioInitiative Working Group 2017 A new update from the the BioInitiative Working Group 2017 shows the evidence has strengthened for brain cancers related to wireless phone use. The Group has released an update analyzing scientific results of case-control studies published between 2010 and 2017 on cancers of the brain. For...
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07
Jun

State of California Investigation Links Cell Phone Use to Cancer

June 7, 2017
In 2010, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) prepared a public guidance document warning exposure to EMFs (a type of radiation) emitted by cell phones could lead to brain cancer and other health problems. It was never publicly released. When Dr. Joel Moskowitz, Director of the Center for Family and Community Health at UC...
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05
Dec

The Royal Society of Medicine Lecture on Cell Phones and Health Risk Lennart Hardell

December 5, 2016
Professor Lennart Hardell: Using the Bradford Hill viewpoints to evaluate the evidence on RF radiations from mobile phones to head tumours The Royal Society of Medicine, London 13th of October 2016 The Epidemiology & Public Health Section of RSM in partnership with Brunel University London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Imperial...
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