Can Cell Phones Lead to Cancer? Warning for Children
Children are the fastest growing market for cell phones, but they are also the most at-risk for possible health effects.
Many recent studies have dismissed the ill health effects of cell phones, but emerging concerns continue. Brain cancer is the biggest concern, but cancer of the salivary glands and more are being studied.
So far there have been no long-term studies of people who have been using cell phones for ten years or more. Think about it: many people began using cell phones in the late 1990s so we are just now getting to a time frame where long-term effects could be observed.
Dr. Deborah Davis is Director of the world's first Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. She weighs in with her thoughts in this video clip (below) from WBAL. She became interested in studying this topic based on studies in Scandanavia that did show an increased brain cancer risk
Children are the fastest growing market for cell phones. The electromagnetic signal goes 2", which is scary for adults, but is halfway through the brain of a 10 year old and completely through the brain of a 5 year old. Dr. Davis says that many kids are sleeping with their phones on vibrate under their pillows all night. The National Cancer Institute says that children could be at increased risk because their nervous systems are still developing. In addition, young people will accumulate many more years of exposure during their lifetimes which poses an even greater risk.
The CTIA (the Wireless Association) was contacted by WBAL for comment on this story, and they referred the reporters to the National Cancer Society's findings. The ACS website lists cell phones causing cancer as one of their "cancer myths."
Dr. Davis says preliminary findings by a well-known epidemiologist in Sweden has found that long-term exposure does pose greater risk. His preliminary findings show 5 times more malignant tumors of the brain for people in their twenties who started to use cell phones as teenagers. Cell phones have been in use for 20 years in Sweden.
Here's the link to the full video report on WBAL: http://www.wbaltv.com/video/17855206/index.html
So far there have been no long-term studies of people who have been using cell phones for ten years or more. Think about it: many people began using cell phones in the late 1990s so we are just now getting to a time frame where long-term effects could be observed.
Dr. Deborah Davis is Director of the world's first Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. She weighs in with her thoughts in this video clip (below) from WBAL. She became interested in studying this topic based on studies in Scandanavia that did show an increased brain cancer risk
Children are the fastest growing market for cell phones. The electromagnetic signal goes 2", which is scary for adults, but is halfway through the brain of a 10 year old and completely through the brain of a 5 year old. Dr. Davis says that many kids are sleeping with their phones on vibrate under their pillows all night. The National Cancer Institute says that children could be at increased risk because their nervous systems are still developing. In addition, young people will accumulate many more years of exposure during their lifetimes which poses an even greater risk.
The CTIA (the Wireless Association) was contacted by WBAL for comment on this story, and they referred the reporters to the National Cancer Society's findings. The ACS website lists cell phones causing cancer as one of their "cancer myths."
Dr. Davis says preliminary findings by a well-known epidemiologist in Sweden has found that long-term exposure does pose greater risk. His preliminary findings show 5 times more malignant tumors of the brain for people in their twenties who started to use cell phones as teenagers. Cell phones have been in use for 20 years in Sweden.
Here's the link to the full video report on WBAL: http://www.wbaltv.com/video/17855206/index.html
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