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Glioblastoma multiforme
20
May

Rising Incidence of Glioblastoma Multiforme in a Well-Defined Population

May 20, 2020
Published: May 19, 2020 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.8195 Grech N, Dalli T, Mizzi S, et al. (May 19, 2020) Rising Incidence of Glioblastoma Multiforme in a Well-Defined Population. Cureus 12(5): e8195. doi:10.7759/cureus.8195 Abstract Background and Objectives The incidence of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) ranges from 0.59 to 5 per 100,000 persons, and it is on the rise in many countries....
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31
Mar

Aggressive Brain Tumors on the Rise in England

March 31, 2018
Microwave News http://microwavenews.com/news-center/gbms-rising-uk Rate of GBM More Than Doubled Between 1995 and 2015 The incidence of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the deadliest type of brain tumor, more than doubled in England between 1995 and 2015, according to a new analysis of national statistics. During that time, the number of cases of GBM rose from 983 to...
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10
Feb

Primary brain tumors and mobile cell phone usage.

February 10, 2018
Wojcik DP. Primary brain tumors and mobile cell phone usage. Cancer Epidemiol. 2016 Oct;44:123-124. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2016.08.007. Epub 2016 Aug 24. PMID: 27566469. Abstract An ecological modelling paper by Chapman and colleagues in Cancer Epidemiology concludes that observed increases in the incidence of brain cancer in Australia are unlikely to be related to mobile phone use...
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13
Jan

Cancer incidence data from the Swedish Cancer Registry January 2018

January 13, 2018
Cancers of the head and the neck are increasing in Sweden according to the latest cancer incidence data from the Swedish Cancer Registry. Cancers of the thyroid and the mouth are among the cancers that have seen the sharpest rise during the last decade but also the trend for cancers of the pituitary are on...
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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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14
Apr

Case-control study on occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields and glioma risk

April 14, 2017
Case-control study on occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields and glioma risk Michael Carlberg MSc, Tarmo Koppel PhD Candidate, Mikko Ahonen PhD, Lennart Hardell MD, PhD, Prof. Abstract Background Exposure to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF) was in 2002 classified as a possible human carcinogen, Group 2B, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer at WHO....
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05
Dec

Getting It Wrong, Wrong, Wrong New Book Dismisses Cell Phone Cancer Risks

December 5, 2016
December 5, 2016 Geoffrey Kabat offers a remarkably apt critique of his own writings with his answer to the question, “Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?”: “The problem with research in this area is not that it is worthless but that all too frequently it is interpreted naively and uncritically and used for partisan rather...
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