Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 06:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer
By TARA PARKER-POPE
June 3, 2008
What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of
us don't?
Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer
Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. "I
think the safe practice," said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, "is to use an earpiece so
you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain."
Dr. Vini Khurana, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the
Australian National University who is an outspoken critic of
cellphones, said: "I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I do not hold
it to my ear." And CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay
Gupta, a neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital, said that like
Dr. Black he used an earpiece.
Along with Senator Edward M. Kennedy's recent diagnosis of a glioma,
a type of tumor that critics have long associated with cellphone use,
the doctors' remarks have helped reignite a long-simmering debate
about cellphones and cancer.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/03well.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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