Mobile phones in the last few years have become a necessity in people’s life. Most of us cannot even think of spending an entire day without being connected to the world through their mobile phones. Anywhere you go, you will find most people busy talking on their mobile phones. There is famous English proverb that too much of anything is bad and this is applicable even for mobile phones. Various studies are being carried out to find out the impact of mobile phones on our body and overall health.
A recent paper based on research by Dr Vini Khurana, who is a leading neurosurgeon working at Canberra Hospital, shocked the mobile users world over. He found that an excessive use of mobile phones can be responsible for brain tumour. Because of widespread use of mobile phones by people, especially those in the younger age group, this has wider ramifications that the health problems caused by asbestos or smoking. The impact of mobile phones on the global incidences of brain tumour is likely to be realized in a few years time.
A brain tumour could be a major health problem in the years to come and needed immediate government intervention to reduce the impact of radiations coming from mobile phones. The rate of patients’ survival in such cases of malignant brain tumour is very low and it will be difficult for doctors to save patients suffering from this health problem. Because the younger generation is more addicted to mobile phones, they face the maximum risk of getting exposed to this health hazard.
The startling claims by Dr. Khurana are based on increasing evidences reported from different places connecting mobile phone use with brain tumours. In fact, there have been comprehensive clinical studies in at least eight cases across the world in addition to one meta analysis based on long-term data that point to the possibility of a connection between mobile phone use and certain types of brain tumours.
The use of certain mobile phone accessories such as hands free kits have the potential to make the problem even worse that can lead to a much bigger problem that just the mobile phones. The blue tooth devices and some unshielded headsets, which are increasingly used these days by the mobile phone users across the world, are even more dangerous health hazards. These devices actually convert the head of the mobile phone user into a potentially self-destructive antenna waiting to explode any moment.