Australian Researcher: Phone Radiation is a Hotline to Brain Cancer
Australian Researcher: Phone Radiation is a Hotline to Brain Cancer
03:41 12.05.2015(updated 11:32 12.05.2015)
A highly respected Australian doctor, currently in remission
from brain cancer, is speaking out on his belief that radiation from wifi, cell
phones and their towers is a major factor in increasing brain cancer rates.
Dr. John Tickell is attempting to raise
awareness and is calling for more funding for brain cancer research,
as it has become the number one most deadly cancer for young people
in Australia. According to the Australian government, there are
35 new cases of the cancer discovered each week with four out of
five cases being fatal in the first five years.
"Leukaemia was once the leading causes
of cancer deaths in Australia for under 40s but it now has
a five-year survival rate of over 80 per cent. Breast cancer is
around 90 cent compared to brain cancer which is around 20 per
cent," Tickell told the Herald Sun.
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications
Association is denying any detrimental health effects from their
radiation, but the World Health Organization has recently upgraded the
radiation threat to category B2, meaning "possibly
carcinogenic."
"You can say you can't prove it —
in my mind it is proven looking at the studies that are unfunded
by industry," he said.
The largest study to take place so far was
conducted among 5000 cancer patients. The study found that there was
no increased risk of overall cancer, but cellphone use was linked
to patients having a 40% increased likeliness of developing Glioma, a
common type of brain cancer.
Tickell also blasted the United States’ Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), and the fact that they have seemingly left all
investigation to the telecommunications companies themselves.
"The telco-funded studies say they’re safe
but the FCC has not done any tests on radiation from phones
in 20 years," Tickell lamented.
"There's a million more times radiation
in the air today than there was fifty years ago — that is
frightening," he said.
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