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General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: ixta on March 12, 2007, 02:10:11 pm

Title: cell phone causes AN?
Post by: ixta on March 12, 2007, 02:10:11 pm

any truth in this?
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=39853 (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=39853)

Title: Re: cell phone causes AN?
Post by: Jim Scott on March 12, 2007, 04:05:35 pm

Sorry, but I just don't buy this theory that cell phone use 'causes' acoustic neuroma tumors to develop.

Cell phones are a very recent invention yet AN's have been around for over a century.  This theory is a bit too convenient and the Swedish study has problems, as the linked article mentioned.  I used a cell phone about 5 times in 5 years (my wife's) and developed a 4.5 cm AN tumor.  I don't believe my case was simply an anomaly.  Many others have a similar story.

I'm not a physician or scentist and I may be wrong, of course, but I think the "Cell phone usage causes acoustic neuroma tumors" headlines are simply tabloid hyperbole posing as scientific findings and have little basis in fact.  As I said, I could be wrong.

Jim