For
the very first time, a supreme court has ruled that using mobile or
cordless phones is directly linked to causing brain tumors, affirming
what many scientists have been saying for years now about the dangers of
cell phone radiation. The U.K.’s Telegraph reports that
60-year-old Innocente Marcolini, who developed a tumor in his trigeminal
nerve, was ruled to have suffered this fate as a result of using his
mobile handset for up to six hours every day for 12 years.
According to Italy’s Supreme Court in
Rome, there is a “causal link” between Marcolini’s mobile phone use and
the non-cancerous tumor that caused the entire left side of his face to
become paralyzed. A respected oncologist and professor of environmental
mutagenesis, Dr. Angelo Gino Levis, along with neurosurgeon Dr. Guiseppe
Grasso, provided evidence at a recent trial showing that the
electromagnetic radiation emitted from mobile and cordless phones
damages cells.
“This is significant for very many
people,” said Marcolini to reporters about his case’s ruling. “I wanted
this problem to become public because many people still do not know the
risks. I wanted it recognized that there was a link between my illness
and the use of mobile phones and cordless phones,” he added, noting
that he now has to take the extremely powerful painkiller morphine every
single day just to cope with his the agony.
Though Marcolini’s brain tumor is
non-cancerous, it still reportedly threatened to kill him because it had
been encroaching on his carotid artery, which is the major blood vessel
responsible for transporting blood to the brain. The tumor also
developed directly next to where Marcolini typically held his phone next
to his ear, illustrating how significantly mobile phone radiation can
disrupt proper brain cell function.
Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) ruled that mobile phone devices are a “Possible Human Carcinogen,” and added them to the Class 2B carcinogens list. Earlier this year, researchers out of Washington also came forward with research showing that cell phone radiation causes significant damage to DNA, which can lead to cancer.
“Today, there are more than two billion
cell phone users being exposed every day to the dangers of
electromagnetic radiation (EMR) — dangers government regulators and the
cell phone industry refuse to admit exist,” wrote Sue Kovach in a 2007 Life Extension Magazine report. “Included are: genetic damage, brain dysfunction, brain tumors, and other conditions such as sleep disorders and headaches.”
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