Brain Tumor Pandemic – DNA Impacts from Mobile Phones Implicated in New Analysis

An important new analysis, The Potential Impact of Mobile Phone Use on Trends in Brain and CNS Tumors, was published today in the journal Neurology & Neurophysiology.  It can be downloaded without cost at http://www.omicsonline.org/2155-9562/2155-9562-S5-003.pdf.    The paper is in a Special Issue of the journal titled “Brain Tumor.”

Press Release December 24, 2011, Berkeley, CA, USA & Stockholm, Sweden.  The study raises very serious concerns about the potential for a large increase in brain cancer incidence, resulting from widespread mobile phone use.  The steep increase in brain cancer will begin in approximately 15 years according to the projections.

The paper, by researchers Örjan Hallberg in Sweden and L. Lloyd Morgan in the U.S., first reviews biological effects from mobile phone use reported in peer-reviewed studies, such as increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier, deleterious effects on sperm, double strand breaks in DNA, stress gene activation (indicating an exposure to a toxin), and increased risk of an acoustic nerve tumor (acoustic neuroma) and brain cancer after 10 or more years of mobile phone use. It then considered two established mechanisms for the development of brain cancer—that mobile phone use decreases the efficiency of the repair of mutated DNA and that mobile phone use increases the rate of DNA mutations.

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