Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Cell, Phones, Cancer, Brain, Research | Themes: Smartphones, Networking, Digital Entertainment, 3GSM
More talk about cell phones causing cancer are heating back up, however researchers need more time to study.
A recent article at PC Magazine asks, is your cell phone melting your brain? For years, cell phone users have been hammered with talk that radiation stemming from the device and its antennae could possibly cause brain tumors. And for a while the threats of mutation and cancer have been somewhat minimal. However now a group of researchers in Scandinavia and Israel suggest that--while its too soon to know if users are at risk--there's enough evidence to warrant further investigations into the matter.
Dariusz Leszcynski, a research professor at the University of Finland, said that it's premature to say that mobile phones are safe. "In my opinion, the current safety standards are not sufficiently supported by science because of very limited research on human volunteers," he told a Senate Appropriations committee. He also added that the United States needs to dump more funds into cell phone safety research.
Another researcher, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki of Tel Aviv University, has studied the effects of cell phones on humans for over ten years. During that time, she has found a connection between heavy cell phone users and cancer. However, Sadetzki said that her results are not conclusive, and that additional research is still required. The problem, she claimed, is that humans have not used cell phones long enough to "draw any concrete conclusions." With cell phone usage booming in the late 90s and rapidly increasing each year, researchers simply need more time to test and gather data.
PC Magazine said that the US government is currently working on a long-term study of cell phone safety, however the results will not be ready until 2013 or 2014. With that said, who needs drugs when iPhones and Blackberrys will scramble our brains for us? By the time researchers figure it out, the general population will be mutants.
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everything causes cancer these days
#CELL PHONES GIVE YOU CANCER
#COMPUTER GAMES MAKE YOU STUPID
#SEX GIVES YOU AIDS
.........WHATS YOUR POINT EXACTLY ?
well the iphone will scramble your brains when it explodes in use...
I'm pretty sure the only way you won't get cancer now days is if you live in a completely dark, electromagnetic-proof box doing absolutely nothing. Getting food and water might be problematic, but if you can overlook that small detail you're good to go! No more cancer!
That's nice a Finnish scientist thinks that the US should dump more funds into research. Why not Finland, it is home to one of the largest cell phone companies?
Hasn't this been debated for like, forever?
The real headline should be:
Guns don't kill people, iPhones kill people!
LOL!
why do you think teens text so much
so what just smoke some ganja and boom no more brain tumor.
think i'm shitting you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medic [...] ain_cancer
I'm more worried if it explodes, well at least if it is an iPhone.
Cellular phones have never, nor will ever cause cancer. Unless a manufacturer makes a phone that is powered by a nuclear energy source that, in turns, leaks radioactive material all over the user, a cellular phone will not be capable of causing cancer. Ever.
so what just smoke some ganja and boom no more brain tumor.think i'm shitting you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medic [...] ain_cancer
Yeah, trade off brain cancer for lung cancer and a jail sentence if you are caught holding; that is extremely fucking intelligent. Of course, I doubt the mice in that study were toking on a bong, since researchers would probably figure that trading one cancer for another would not be worth the effort.
It is just a chemical found in marijuana that might kill off cancer cells.
I am proud to not own a cell phone. Not to protect my brain from cancer, but for a much better reason. Cell phones make you available to talk at all times of the day. Things barely go to voice mail and you don't have to wait like email. Which means...
No one can call me whenever for some BS. Hooray.
Also whats up with the new fad in cell phones. Its a freaking block with a bad earpiece, mic, and crappy camera.
Next up - Jacking off will make your penis shrink
Yeah, trade off brain cancer for lung cancer and a jail sentence if you are caught holding; that is extremely fucking intelligent. Of course, I doubt the mice in that study were toking on a bong, since researchers would probably figure that trading one cancer for another would not be worth the effort.It is just a chemical found in marijuana that might kill off cancer cells.
actually as it works in the brain, marijuana also can fight off cancer in the lungs as well: ) so you're not actually trading one cancer for another... but just to be on the safe side, be sure to use a vaporizer.
You can see the proof that cell phones cause brain damage while driving down any major highway or downtown city street.
I'm pretty sure the only way you won't get cancer now days is if you live in a completely dark, electromagnetic-proof box doing absolutely nothing. Getting food and water might be problematic, but if you can overlook that small detail you're good to go! No more cancer!
Not if the box was made in China...
everything causes cancer these days
Quick don't breath, it will cause cancer.
I knew there would be a good reason to keep my old rotary dial telephone!
Pictured: Cookie monster texting Mrs Fields
Ok, so you think people haven't been using cell phones long enough? Really? They've been popular since the late 90s, are you moving at the pace of snails here? And why are we trusting researchers from Scandinavia and Israel with our safety?
I hypothesise that that thinking about things that cause cancer all the time causes cancer.
Hmm, using phones could cause cancer. Correct me if i'm wrong, but having sex could get you infected with all sorts of things, right? It's the risk you take, i wouldn't put down my phone even if there were definite links to cancer.
I'm pretty sure the only way you won't get cancer now days is if you live in a completely dark, electromagnetic-proof box doing absolutely nothing. Getting food and water might be problematic, but if you can overlook that small detail you're good to go! No more cancer!
Even then you'll get cancer
Quick don't breath, it will cause cancer.
You joke but breathing can potentially cause cancer since oxygen is in fact a producer of free radicals that can mutate DNA hence causing cancer
Cellular phones have never, nor will ever cause cancer. Unless a manufacturer makes a phone that is powered by a nuclear energy source that, in turns, leaks radioactive material all over the user, a cellular phone will not be capable of causing cancer. Ever.
Ok, so you think only radioactive stuff causes cancer???
So you think that sun rays are radioatcive!!! the UV rays are in fact more mutagenic than some radioactive rays.
Since cell phones emit waves of the electromagnetic spectra depending on it's effect on cells it can potentially cause cancer
"In my opinion, the current safety standards are not sufficiently supported by science because of very limited research on human volunteers," Dariusz Leszcynski, a research professor at the University of Finland.
Right. I'll volunteer for that study.
gekko668 wrote: "Next up - Jacking off will make your penis shrink"
It does; it does. Mine used to reach halfway down to my knees until I ... Never mind. More information than you need to know.
I would most definetly not out cellphones as a cause for cancer.
I'm pretty sure the only way you won't get cancer now days is if you live in a completely dark, electromagnetic-proof box doing absolutely nothing. Getting food and water might be problematic, but if you can overlook that small detail you're good to go! No more cancer!
And then you realized that there is also hereditary forms of cancer, still get cancer and die alone, sealed in a box...
Sad way to go.
To be quite honest peeps, the only thing certain in life is death.
When it comes we do not know, but it will come.
Living gets you cancer, along with anything from wearing jeans to eating fast food.
Don't live to die or to get sick, live your life to the fullest, be the best you can be... and when you die, at least you will have no regrets.
My 2 cents,
Mike
There are so many people in my neighborhood who die in cancer at a conspicuously young age and where I live isn't really known for being more polluted than other areas. So to me it's obvious that we're exposed to chemicals that are not good for us maybe through the pollution or from what we eat or even both.
The problem is that it can be very difficult to find the causes and correlation generally doesn't imply causality which make investigations difficult to evaluate. That's why the results from such investigations can turn out to be so dubious.
Cell phones operate at frequency very close to that of microwave ovens. There have been cases of cancer related phone use found in the late 80s - early 90s before cell phones were abundant, towers were scarce and the phones were much more powerful to compensate.
This issue has been going on for what seems like forever, with no real conclusion. However this is a billion (trillion?) dollar industry and don't think for a second that does not have anything to do with the "more research is needed" advertisement.
I sometimes feel my phone vibrate in my pocket... when it is on the charger, and it vibrates right where the phone rests on my leg.