Not exact matches
As recently as a few years back, researchers suggested there was a connection
between brain cancer and
cell - phone usage.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link
between cell phone use and
cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the
brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent
cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.
A mistake that is both wrong and right is the alleged connection
between cell phone use and
brain cancers.
The most common types of
cancer in children under the age of 15 are acute lymphocytic leukemia,
brain tumors, neuroblastoma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, while the most common types in adolescents
between the ages of 15 - 19 are Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid carcinoma,
brain cancer, and testicular germ
cell tumors.