After my article on a device which stops iPhone radio waves from melting your brain, Haydndup, an avid iMod reader decided that it was time to explain something about mobiles and radiation.
Cell phones don’t emit ionizing radiation, and are therefore unable to cause mutations in human cells.
Recent studies agreed:
Because widespread cell phone use is little more than a decade old, there
has been limited opportunity to examine its long-term health effects.
However, large case-control studies and cohort studies have compared cell phone use among brain cancer patients and people without brain cancer. In each of the case-control studies, patients with brain cancer were compared to people free of brain cancer, in terms of their past use of cell phones. If the patients reported more cell phone use than those in the study who did not have brain cancer, and if no other differences between the 2 groups could account for the brain cancers, these observations would provide evidence of a possible link between cell phones and brain cancer. The majority of case-control studies have yielded similar results:
First, the patients with brain cancer did not report more cell phone use
overall than the controls. This finding was true when all brain cancers were considered as a group, when individual types of brain cancer were
considered, and when specific locations within the brain were considered. In fact, most of the studies showed a tendency toward a lower risk of brain cancer among cell phone uses, for unclear reasons. were considered. In fact, most of the studies showed a tendency toward a lower risk of brain cancer among cell phone uses, for unclear reasons.
Second, none of the studies showed a “dose-response relationship” — a
tendency for the risk of brain cancer to increase with increasing cell phone use, which would be expected if cell phone use caused brain cancer.
The side of the head on which the brain cancer occurred and the side on which the cell phone was used.
Thanks Haydndup, you’re knowledge is grately appreciated here!
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