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Old 08-29-2012, 02:09 AM   #44
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Several dozen studies have looked at possible links between cell phone use and tumors. Most of these studies have focused on brain tumors. Many of these have been case-control studies, in which patients with brain tumors (cases) were compared to people free of brain tumors (controls), in terms of their past cell phone use.

In general, these studies have yielded similar results:

In most studies patients with brain tumors do not report more cell phone use overall than the controls. This finding is true when all brain tumors are considered as a group, or when specific types of tumors are considered.

Most studies do not show a "dose-response relationship," which would be a tendency for the risk of brain tumors to be higher with increasing cell phone use. This would be expected if cell phone use caused brain tumors.

Most studies do not show that brain tumors occur more often on the side of the head where people hold their cell phones. This might also be expected if cell phone use caused brain tumors.

A few studies have found a possible link. For example, several studies published by the same research group in Sweden have reported an increased risk of tumors on the side of the head where the cell phone was held, particularly with 10 or more years of use. It is hard to know what to make of these findings because studies by other researchers have not had the same results, and there is no overall increase in brain tumors in Sweden during the years that correspond to these reports.
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According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates the safety of radiation-emitting devices such as cell phones in the United States: "The majority of studies published have failed to show an association between exposure to radiofrequency from a cell phone and health problems."

According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC): "There is no scientific evidence that proves that wireless phone usage can lead to cancer or a variety of other problems, including headaches, dizziness or memory loss. However, organizations in the United States and overseas are sponsoring research and investigating claims of possible health effects related to the use of wireless telephones."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): "Some… studies have suggested the possibility that long-term, high cell phone use may be linked to certain types of brain cancer. These studies do not establish this link definitively. Scientists will need to conduct more studies to learn more about this possible risk."

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is currently conducting studies of the possible health effects of cell phones: "The weight of the current scientific evidence has not conclusively linked cell phones with any adverse health problems, but more research is needed."

According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI): "Studies thus far have not shown a consistent link between cell phone use and cancers of the brain, nerves, or other tissues of the head or neck. More research is needed because cell phone technology and how people use cell phones have been changing rapidly."
Of course, cellphone usage has been increasing, and the total time spent using cellphones has also been increasing, and children have been using cellphones much more often in recent years, so further studies are needed to take these new situations into account (especially for children), but no adverse conclusions about health risks can be reached at this time.

There is certainly plenty of room for fear of the unknown (and FUD), but no reason to panic or to get oneself all stressed out over this long-term ongoing non-issue. Even the (missing) correlation maps from the "home city" in Israel are just coincidental non-evidence and certainly not scientific proof, however popular they may have been (before they were removed from the website). There could be a correlation of ionizing radiation sources (or other potential health hazards) at locations that also coincide with those maps. Anecdotal correlation is not evidence. It just tells you where you need to study with REAL scientific experimental studies (unlike those STATISTICAL studies shown above). Of course, real studies that affect life and death of human test subjects are unlikely to happen any time soon, so this will help to keep uninformed and irrational fear alive for a long time to come, especially when there are those who profit from those fears.

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