Italian court rules cell phones can cause brain tumors

Italian court rules cell phones can cause brain tumors







The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that cell phone use can be linked
to cancer, a decision that has opened a door for future litigation,
even as medical experts disputed the verdict.
According to Russia Today,
the high court ruled that Innocente Marcolini was correct in blaming
his heavy cell phone use — six hours every day for 12 years, Marcolini
said — for him developing a brain tumor that, though benign, left the
left side of his face paralyzed.

The tumor formed on the trigeminal nerve, near where he would hold
his mobile phone. Marcolini’s argument said that the phone’s
electromagnetic radiation caused cell damage, increasing the likelihood
of tumors. In this particular case, he said, the growth could have
spread to his carotid artery and blocked one of the primary blood
vessels to his brain.

“This is significant for very many people,” he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “I wanted this problem to become public because many people still do not know the risks.”

Oncologist Angelo Gino Levis, who testified for the prosecution
during the case after conducting several case studies he said bore out
to the link between mobile phones and brain tumors, suggested this case
could be just the beginning.

“It’ll open, not a road, but a motorway to legal actions by victims,” Levis said. “We’re considering a class action.”

However, according to Reuters, the medical jury is still out on cases like Marcolini’s.

“Great caution is needed before we jump to conclusions about mobile
phones and brain tumors,” said Malcolm Sperrin, who heads the medical
physics and clinical engineering at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in
Britain.

Meanwhile, Tech Hive.com reported
that the high court ignored a number of studies done by Swedish
researchers between 2005 and 2009 that found no link between cell phone
use and the disease.


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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/20/italian-court-rules-cell-phones-can-cause-brain-tumors/