Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Cell Phone Cancer

According to the World Health Organization, cell phones might be carcinogenic. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/:
There are some indications of an increased risk of glioma for those who reported the highest 10% of cumulative hours of cell phone use, although there was no consistent trend of increasing risk with greater duration of use.Researchers concluded that biases and errors limit the strength of these conclusions and prevent a causal interpretation.
While an increased risk of brain tumors is not established from INTERPHONE data, the increasing use of mobile phones and the lack of data for mobile phone use over time periods longer than 15 years warrant further research of mobile phone use and brain cancer risk.
 Good thing no one ever calls me. 

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