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There is no evidence that using mobile phones causes brain cancer, pituitary cancers, or leukemia in adults and children, a new review by the World Health Organization finds. ... cell towers, and ...
Over the last 10 years, you may have heard rumblings about whether the radio waves emitted from your cell phone are capable of causing cancer.Now, a new review commissioned by the World Health ...
Given the widespread use of cellphones, Ahluwalia said, even the slightest risk of cancer would be concerning to many patients, particularly if there were a link to cancer of the head and neck ...
A mobile phone connects to the telephone network by radio waves exchanged with a local antenna and automated transceiver called a cellular base station (cell site or cell tower). The service area served by each provider is divided into small geographical areas called cells , and all the phones in a cell communicate with that cell's antenna.
The classification of mobile phone signals as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by the World Health Organization (WHO) — "a positive association has been observed between exposure to the agent and cancer for which a causal interpretation is considered by the Working Group to be credible, but chance, bias or confounding could not be ruled out ...
Hardell's research on cell phones and cancer concluded that long-term mobile phone use is associated with an increased risk of acoustic neuroma and glioma. [4] [5] He has said that children should be banned from using cell phones except in emergencies, as he feels the risk of cancer is greater in people who begin using mobile phones before the age of 20. [6]
A World Health Organization review of 63 studies found no link between using mobile phones and a person's risk of developing brain cancer.
In this role he was responsible for a research program related to studies in animal model systems and in patients with cancer, studying the cell mediated immune responses to tumors. Herberman’s laboratory was at the forefront of research leading to the discovery of a new category of lymphocytes, termed natural killer (NK) cells .