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Do Portable Electronics and Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

Posted July 11, 2008 8:09 AM
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Lots of studies have been done investigating the deleterious effects of cell phone use and its possible link to cancer. As far as I know, there is not one study that appears to be conclusive, probably because one has not been conducted for a long enough time period of exposure. So to be safer, should we switch our Bluetooth headset from ear to ear and keep our phones at arm's length? What do you think?

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Re: Do Portable Electronics and Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

07/11/2008 8:53 AM

I don't use a bluetooth or a mobile phone, so maybe I can be a control subject in the trials?

I do carry a mobile phone for emergancies though, but its always in my trouser pocket...

Oooohhhhh Errrrr maybe I will turn it off when not being used

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Re: Do Portable Electronics and Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

07/12/2008 6:42 AM

its always in my trouser pocket...

you will probably have testicle cancer...

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Re: Do Portable Electronics and Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

07/14/2008 5:16 PM

I keep mine in a lead box. I'll probably die of lead poisoning first.

We're surrounded by the same radio wave even if we don't use cellphone. Anyone got cancer from watch TV or listening to radio?

I guess we should stop using electricity.

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Re: Do Portable Electronics and Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

07/17/2008 12:44 PM

Everything causes cancer. It is all about the amount of exposure!

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Re: Do Portable Electronics and Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

09/01/2008 12:58 AM

During WW2, I was a navy radar technician and was exposed to megawatts ( not milli or microwatts) of pulsed electromagnetic radiation from giant radar sets. I am now 87 years old and in excellent health with no radiation effects like tumors or cancers. At the time we were required to wear photographic film on our persons to learn if the radiation was impacting our bodies. Don't know the results of this. I still think it is a fine idea to be aware of radiation around us from any and all sources and to be constantly on the lookout for carcenogenics around us. More important than radiation concers is tobacco as a known cause of cancer.

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