World Health Organization -Cell Phones Possibly Cause Cancer

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Cellphones possibly cause cancer, a panel of experts from the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer reported today.

The panel's decision, which it based on a review of published studies on the topic, lands cellphones on a list of possible carcinogens that includes the pesticide DDT and gasoline engine exhaust. But it has surprised experts outside the panel, who say the data on cellphone use and brain cancer is still inconclusive.

"In general, rating agencies such as this tend to be conservative by nature. They have to be," said Dr. Henry Friedman, deputy director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. "The reality is that all of the epidemiological studies that have been done to date have basically been negative."

An estimated 5 billion cellphone users represent nearly three-quarters of the world's population.

The cellphone-cancer conundrum has been a hot topic since shoe-size phones hit the scene in the late 1970s. Roughly 30 studies have failed to link the devices to cancer. But a large study last year found a slight, statistically insignificant increase in risk in a rare form of brain cancer called glioma among cellphone users. Another study out of the National Institutes of Health Research linked cellphone use to increased brain activity.

And people laughed. .

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What scare nonsense. Right up there with the telephone pole wires may cause cancer.

bodies.

And don't we also use microwave tachnology to cook or heat food?

And don't we hold the cell phones next to our heads?

So, aren't we cooking or heating our brains?

to run the WHO, we could have cut the wait time on this information down by YEARS!!!!


I love the smell of "skeptics" eating crow in the morning...

We're frying our brains.