May is National Brain Tumor Awareness Month. Before watching this testimony of a 34-year-old man diagnosed with brain cancer, most likely brought on by cell phone use, read what the three authors, including Professor Angelo Levis, wrote about mobile telephony and head tumors in 2012 (ref: "Business Bias As Usual: The Case of Electromagnetic Pollution"). Then read the message from the maker of the film, "Disconnect" from which the video clip is taken:
"The risk of head tumors resulting from mobile phone use is very high. Lloyd-Morgan, while underestimating by 50% the number of cell users, without considering the risk for cordless users and assuming a minimum latency time of 30 years, calculates 'there would be about 1,900 cell-phone-induced brain tumors out of about 50,000 brain tumors diagnosed in 2004, increasing to about 380,000 cell-phone-induced brain tumors within 2019 in the USA alone'... An estimate of the incidence of head tumors must begin with the correct number of cell-phone users (5 billion subscriptions worldwide at mid 2010), should also consider the risk to cordless users, and assume at least a doubling of the incidence of head tumors and of acoustic neuromas as documented by Hardell already after a latency of at least 10-15 years, that gives about 750,000 new cases worldwide even today.
"A number of factors raise our concern still further: the latency of head tumor induced by mobile phones can exceed 30 years; risk is higher in those starting mobile phone use when young and who have not yet accumulated 10 years of latency... The data by Hardell on the increase in other types of malign and benign head tumor – besides brain gliomas, astrocytomas, and acoustic neuromas – are for the main part today only indicative. Therefore, there is no doubt that today we are dealing with just the tip of an iceberg, and will have to wait one or two decades before its real dimensions come to light."
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