Women and Children First
Post #767
In 1912 on the sinking Titanic, the method of evacuation to the lifeboats was “women and children first” — although this method was not repeated on the sinking Lusitania, 3 years later. There is a recent trend of women and children being first in something again, but this time it is not in a good way.
Compared to males, females use cellphones more, and children— when compared to themselves in prior decades — use cellphones more now. But the use of cellphones has been linked to both brain- and thyroid cancer. To test the theory, you can compare the trend in brain cancer incidence and thyroid cancer incidence in women and kids.
Women
(age-adjusted brain cancer incidence)
From 1993 up to 2018, the age-adjusted brain cancer incidence in women rose by 51% — which is approximately 20% per decade. This trend is marked above by the pink line.
(age-specific thyroid cancer incidence worldwide)
[Figure S10. Disease burden of thyroid cancer across different age groups (5-year intervals) by gender in 2019, Related to Figure 5] — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10918270/
In the image above, the bars are the age-specific incidence of thyroid cancer, with women at nearly any age being more susceptible than men. The report linked to above notes that head-and-neck cancer incidence has been growing twice as fast in women compared to men, though overall (both sexes) thyroid cancer is up 13% per decade.
Children/Adolescents
(central nervous system (CNS) and thyroid cancer incidence)
[Figure 10. Trends in incidence rates for the four leading cancer types among children and adolescents, United States, 1995–2020] — https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21820
As cellphone use has grown from 1995, note the rise in CNS cancer incidence in kids under age 15 (left-side; orange), and also the steep rise in thyroid cancer among adolescents (right-side; green). Evidence suggests that the electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation from cellphones is causing cancers, but in “women and children first.”
1993 Cellphone Subscriptions per 100 persons worldwide (under 1 per 100 people)
2018 Cellphone Subscriptions per 100 persons worldwide (over 100 per 100 people)
