Sleeping with your mobile phone could cause cancer and infertility, warns health officials

People are being warned to keep their mobile phones at a distance to reduce radiation exposure and associated health risks. 

The warning from theCalifronia Department of Health, comes after mounting evidence that mobile phone use could be linked to a string of health concerns including cancer, poor mental health and reproductive issues. 

While research has been unable to definitively prove that mobile phone use is dangerous, there are enough studies linking the two to warrant caution, especially among children.

Life after cancer treatment. Four things you should aware of 

When you finish cancer treatment, your first instinct may be to jump back into your pre-cancer life as soon as possible. It’s important to know that your body and mind may have experienced a very difficult and life-changing event, and you may need to adjust to a “new normal.”

So what does a “new normal” life look like?

Here are 4 things to be aware of.

Cognitive Changes: Some cancers and treatment can result in cognitive changes that affect thinking, learning, processing or remembering information. These changes can affect aspects of daily life such as the ability to work or even do everyday tasks. These changes can happen suddenly or slowly over time. If you think you have cognitive challenges, to see a checklist of symptoms. Talk to your health care team about any concerns you may have.

Your Emotions: After treatment is done, you may experience a mixture of emotions. This may be confusing and surprising, butit is normal. Feelings of gratitude, closeness to loved ones and a desire to get the most out of life are common, but so are feelings of anger and uncertainty. Will my cancer come back? Why did this happen to me? Did this cancer burden my family? In time, it generally becomes easier to deal with emotions as other life events may require more attention. However, if these feelings don’t subside, make sure to talk with your health care team or find a counselor or other emotional support.

Physical Effects: Cancer treatment affects each person’s body and physical functioning differently. If you’re experiencing pain post-treatment, make sure to notify your health care team as they can help with management. Pain can interfere with healing and you do not need to suffer in silence. Sexual health and body image can also be affected, and it’s important to know that cancer treatment can cause physical and emotional changes such as fatigue, discomfort and lack of confidence. If your fertility was compromised during treatment, reach out your oncologist to discuss your family-building options.

Eating Well & Exercise: Studies have found that nutrition and physical activity have health benefits for cancer survivors. Eating a plant-based diet, keeping a trim fit, being physically active for 30 minutes or more every day and limiting red and processed meat, alcohol, tobacco and sugar are excellent ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Though you may feel weak and tired after treatment, many cancer survivors have said that physical activity helps them feel better. Being active may help you regain strength and positivity, and reduce stress, but it’s important to discuss this with your health care team to make sure a fitness regimen supports your ongoing healing.

Positive results using alternating electric field therapy in newly diagnosed glioblastoma

Glioblastoma is the most devastating primary malignancy of the central nervous system in adults. Most patients die within 1 to 2 years of diagnosis. Tumor-treating fields (TTFields) is a novel treatment strategy for glioblastoma, delivered continuously by transducers applied to a shaved scalp. The TTFs is an antimitotic treatment that interferes with cell division and organelle assembly.

In an open-label randomized trial of 695 adults with newly diagnosed glioblastoma, median survival was improved in patients assigned to wear the device during the adjuvant temozolomide phase of standard chemo radiation compared with those assigned to standard chemo radiation alone (21 versus 16 months).  

Use of the device is encouraged in interested patients, although the requirement to carry a device and maintain a shaved scalp for the duration of the treatment presents a potential burden that it not acceptable to all patients. 

More about the randomized trial in the link

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2475463