Telephone usage is almost a characteristic of most people in the world especially those in urban centres, towns, municipalities, wards, statehouse, armies, police offices, interpol offices, intelligence and those people working in international bodies like United Nations, African Union, Commonwealth head offices, and African Union among others.

In some countries like Uganda, a person uses a phone to call someone who is stationed a few metres away from him/her. But the most shocking thing is that phone use exposes brain to cancer.

A recent study done by IARC classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, which are present in mobile phones, has possibly carcinogenic to humans. Any substance or radiation that is an agent directly involved in causing cancer. Phone use increases the risks of aglioma, a migrant type of brain cancer associated with  sireless phone use.

The researchers say that aglioma is a type of brain cancer which starts in the brain or spine.

Walakira Nyanzi