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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (54972)	10/27/2004 10:18:01 PM
From: Taikun	Respond to of 74559

Mq, I know someone who has this tumor. 1. They started using a cell phone in the 1980s while working for a Japanese real estate firm buying property in Canada and the US 2. They already had left-side hearing damage due to a cycling accident while they were in their 20's 3. They used the cell phone, and I'm assuming the older models emitted more radiation, exclusively on the right side because of their impaired hearing on the left side 4. The tumor showed up on the left side and while their is no medical confirmation, some Doctors believe in this case it was caused by the cycling accident. By the way, in Sweden, where they do a large number of autopsies (at one point they were doing them on 100% of deaths) they found 1% of the general population had this tumor, but it usually did not grow and people would live their life not knowing they had it. Here's what I think: the tumor, which is caused by the Schwann cells on the acoustic nerve growing out of control (the official name is vestibular schwannoma, not acoustic neuroma), often after an injury as light as a knock to the head, normally stops growing at about 1mm in size, which is why the avg person can live their whole life not knowing they had it, and the tumor may even heal. I think the cell phone radiation, or any other radiation or weakening of the person's immune system, will let the Schwann cells grow out of control when trying to heal some damage caused by, say, a knock to the head, and not only do those 1% (from the Swedish autopsies) all turn out to have tumors, but also smaller tumors that would have normally healed do not heal and turn into serious tumors. What to do? 1. Use an earpiece or some other remote mic/speaker system (these can be installed in most cars) to use cell phones while driving. 2. If you have had any type of knock to the head that is serious enough to make you think you might have a concussion, have an MRI every 3 years or so. (MRIs can detect acoustic neuromas as small as 1mm) 3. If you work in a high radiation environment have an MRI every 3 years or so (and make sure you have disability insurance). David