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Source: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/aip/7910754/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/aip/7910754/ The provisional pdf is full of Tracked Changes.

Source: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/aip/7910754/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/aip/7910754/ The provisional pdf is full of Tracked Changes. To clarify, GBM is the only kind of cancer that increased in frequency in the data they have. I'm less inclined to think that these "findings" are accurate and more to think it's a matter of accounting and data quality. (Not to mention the quality of the manuscript itself.)

tzahola 9y ago
>To clarify, GBM is the only kind of cancer that increased in frequency in the data they have. Only glioblstoma multiforme, aka the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer? Phfew, what a relief.
- stochastic_monk 9y ago
  In fairness, GBM is brutal and has a life expectancy measured in months, not years, even with treatment. On the other hand, it's a subset with ~15% proportion of all brain tumors. The article's title suggests that all brain tumor rates doubled and I am clarifying.
24gttghh 9y ago
From that paper: >Our results highlight an urgent need for funding more research into the initiation and promotion of GBM tumours. This should include the use of CT imaging for diagnosis and also modern lifestyle factors that may affect tumour metabolism. There is very little mention of cell phones in that paper, they only seem to reference a paper from 2015 regarding data from 2000-2003 (higher antennae output back then?)[0] They mention: >a 50-minute cell phone exposure produced a statistically significant increase in brain glucose metabolism in the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole regions closest to the handset [0]Hardell and M. Carlberg, “Mobile phone and cordless phone use and the risk for glioma – Analysis of pooled case–control studies in Sweden, 1997–2003 and 2007–2009,” Pathophysiology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2014.10.001. [Online First 2014 Oct 29]

tzahola 9y ago

>To clarify, GBM is the only kind of cancer that increased in frequency in the data they have. Only glioblstoma multiforme, aka the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer? Phfew, what a relief.

stochastic_monk 9y ago
In fairness, GBM is brutal and has a life expectancy measured in months, not years, even with treatment. On the other hand, it's a subset with ~15% proportion of all brain tumors. The article's title suggests that all brain tumor rates doubled and I am clarifying.

24gttghh 9y ago

From that paper: >Our results highlight an urgent need for funding more research into the initiation and promotion of GBM tumours. This should include the use of CT imaging for diagnosis and also modern lifestyle factors that may affect tumour metabolism. There is very little mention of cell phones in that paper, they only seem to reference a paper from 2015 regarding data from 2000-2003 (higher antennae output back then?)[0] They mention: >a 50-minute cell phone exposure produced a statistically significant increase in brain glucose metabolism in the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole regions closest to the handset [0]Hardell and M. Carlberg, “Mobile phone and cordless phone use and the risk for glioma – Analysis of pooled case–control studies in Sweden, 1997–2003 and 2007–2009,” Pathophysiology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2014.10.001. [Online First 2014 Oct 29]