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Brain tumors take several years to even decades to develop and become apparent. This rise in tumors detected now could have been caused in the days of analog ph
by Zigurd 9y ago
Brain tumors take several years to even decades to develop and become apparent. This rise in tumors detected now could have been caused in the days of analog phones with radios that had vastly higher power output. Or, for that matter, analog cordless phones.
- mgamache 9y agoGBM tumors are super aggressive and there's no known cause. If you get diagnosed with a GBM your five year survival rate is 10%. Whatever the cause once the tumor gets started you have a months, not years before you know it.
- ItsMe000001 9y agoYou mention a key key point: "once the tumor gets started ". Cancer does not start immediately, the effects leading up to it accumulate over long periods. That was OPs point, although I disagree for the reason mentioned in the other reply.
- perl4ever 9y agoIt doesn't make sense to me that we would find a detectable rise on that basis, because in the days of analog phones with high powered radios, it was a very small proportion of the population using them. Here is a picture of a DynaTAC analog cell phone circa 1983: https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/cell-phone-old.jpg https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/cell-phone-old.jpg I certainly knew what they looked like, before I had my first cell phone, because stockbrokers or lawyers or whatever in movies used them. But I never knew anyone who had one, or saw one in real life. They definitely preceded the current ubiquity of cell phones.
- Zigurd 9y agoI had a Moto MicroTAC. I think I still have it somewhere.
- bhhaskin 9y agoI don't think they mean analog cell phones, but analog cordless phones. Which would be much more in use.
- perl4ever 9y agoI would think that such phones did not have as high powered radios as a cellular phone due to less transmission distance required. I also have the impression that they weren't overly popular because of the ease of eavesdropping. If analog cordless phones captured interference from fluorescent lighting and automotive ignition systems[1], does that mean there is a vast array of things that could cause health effects via RF? [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordless_telephone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordless_telephone