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Maybe the paper addresses this, but don't most people hold the phone predominantly on one side or the other? Wouldn't the locations of the tumors be more on th
by mhb 9y ago
Maybe the paper addresses this, but don't most people hold the phone predominantly on one side or the other? Wouldn't the locations of the tumors be more on that side of the brain? And wouldn't that provide some pretty good support for the association?
- CommieBobDole 9y agoI can't find the cite right now, but I recall there was a study some years back that found that heavy mobile phone users didn't have any higher rate of brain cancer than the general population, but among those who did get cancer, there was a strong statistical correlation between the side of the head where they most used the phone and the location of the cancer.
- jdironman 9y agoMaybe it has something to do with predisposition to their dominant side and not specifically the use of a mobile device.
- fluidcruft 9y ago"Dominant side of the brain" is actually on the opposite side. If you're right dominant, it's left hemisphere.
- taneq 9y agoI'm calling it now, there's some gene which codes for "sense of direction" and results in some kind of magnetic element embedded in some nerve cells (the way some birds 'see' the Earth's magnetic field), which also makes them vulnerable to excessive EMF radiaton.
- aaron_m04 9y agoThat's a reasonable hypothesis. Still just a hypothesis of course.
- emodendroket 9y agoI recall reading that this data was self-reported and, if taken at face value, would suggest that using a cell phone on one side of your head actually prevented cancer on the other, relative to base rates (in other words, the self-reported data is probably not accurate).