Sharp increase in patients treated for brain tumors with unclear diagnosis in Sweden
Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation,20 October, 2014 - from Swedish
An increasing number of patients are treated for brain tumor ”of unknown nature” in Sweden since 2008, but the increase is not reflected in the national cancer registry. – It is serious if the statistics on new cases of brain tumors is incorrect because the brain tumor statistics is widely being used as an argument that cell phones do not increase the risk of cancer and brain tumors, says Mona Nilsson, Chairman of Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation.
Updated June 30, 2015
Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation has compiled statistics from the Swedish Health Board registry’s database on the number of patients treated for brain tumors in Sweden as well as from the cancer registry and cause of death registry, during the last decade. The number of people receiving treatment fora brain tumor”of unknown nature” increased by almost 30% only between 2008 and 2012. At the same time, the number of patients with a confirmed brain tumor diagnosis remained at a relatively stable level.
In April 2015, the Swedish scientists, oncologist Lennart Hardell and Michael Carlberg published a scientific analyse of the brain tumour data from Swedens registries that confirmed that
1. There is an increase in the numeber of patients treated for brain tumours and dying from brain tumours in Sweden during recent years;
2. The Swedish cancer registry data on brain tumour incidence is not reliable.
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