advanced mode DO SMARTPHONES CAUSE CANCER? [Reposted]

in #busy6 years ago (edited)

A lot of people worry that their cellphone will give them cancer which isn't all that surprising I mean you're holding a device that emits radiation right next to your brain terrible idea right.
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Well ! no some kinds of radiation can damage DNA which can then lead to cancer but your cell phone doesn't give off that kind of radiation and even if there was a way that cellphone radiation could hurt you studies have shown that it doesn't cellphones communicate with cell towers using a form of radiation known as radio frequency or RF radiation the word radiation is just in there because it's a type of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum the spectrum goes from low energy at one end to high energy at the other radio,

microwaves are near the low end gamma rays and x-rays are near the high end it can help to think of electromagnetic radiation as a wave with a certain frequency based on its energy the higher the energy the higher the frequency,
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when an electromagnetic wave hits an atom it transfers some energy to that atom when the wave has a high enough frequency meaning it has a lot of energy it can transfer enough energy to the atom to knock out an electron electromagnetic energy that can knock out electrons is called ionizing radiation and it can break chemical bonds in your cells and damage your DNA in other words it's the cancer-causing kind when the electromagnetic energy doesn't have a high enough frequency to break chemical bonds it's called non ionizing radiation if non ionizing radiation hits an atom it isn't going to be able to knock out an electron,

So it can't damage cells and it can't cause cancer it doesn't matter how strong the beam of radiation is its ability to knock out electrons only depends on its frequency which isn't affected by the intensity of the radiation it's like your microwave no matter how powerful it is it's never going to start emitting infrared radiation which would be the next level up at frequency the cutoff between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation is somewhere in the ultraviolet range that's above visible light in frequency,

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And way above the radio waves that cellphones use which is why based on what we know about physics and biology there's nothing cell phones do that can give you cancer however doctors and scientists do take the potential health risks of mobile phones seriously and a lot of studies have been done to see if there's a link between cell phones and cancer sometimes these studies do find what sounds like a relationship between cell phones and cancer at least at first for example one study a million women in the UK found what seemed to be a weak link to a tumor called an acoustic neuroma a benign tumor in the nerve that leads from the ear to the brain more frequent cellphone use was correlated with a higher risk of getting this tumor but the study followed the subjects for seven years if there actually was a connection between this tumor and cellphone use you'd expect more people to develop the tumor as they were exposed to more radiation over time,

But the numbers didn't go up based on that and the fact that other large studies haven't found the same connection the authors of the study concluded it was just a statistical fluke another large study from the World Health Organization found an increase in glioma among the 10% most frequent cellphone users it's a type of nerve cell tumor that's responsible for most cases of malignant brain cancer however there were problems with that study they collected the data by having people to report their own cell phone use and people tend to remember incorrectly plus people who use their cell phones infrequently had a lower risk of glioma than people who didn't use them at all if cellphone radiation was causing the tumors,
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That would make any sense and the vast majority of other studies have found no evidence that cell phones can cause tumors there's also the fact that if cellphones were causing some kinds of cancer we'd be seeing the rates of those cancers go up I mean something like 5 billion people use cellphones and they've been commercially available since the mid 1980s that's long enough for cancer to start showing up even if it takes a few decades to develop which is exactly what happened after cigarettes started being mass-produced lung cancer used to be pretty rare but when smoking cigarettes started to become more popular lung cancer rates went way up there just isn't any sign of this when it comes to cellphones both the number of people who get brain cancer and the number of people who die from it is holding steady even a cell phone use skyrockets so go ahead and make as many phone calls as you want😉



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interesting i’m on curiousity of these cellphone to radiation topic

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