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Researchers concluded that exposure to cordless phones and fixed-site transmitters, like broadcasting antennas or base stations that serve as hubs for local wireless networks, is also unlikely to ...
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 ...
A systematic review into the potential health effects from radio wave exposure has shown mobile phones are not linked to brain cancer. The review was commissioned by the World Health Organization ...
The HPA also says that due to the mobile phone's adaptive power ability, a DECT cordless phone's radiation could actually exceed the radiation of a mobile phone. The HPA explains that while the DECT cordless phone's radiation has an average output power of 10 mW, it is actually in the form of 100 bursts per second of 250 mW, a strength comparable to some mobile phones.
The study's results, published in 2010, indicated that mobile phone use did not increase the risk of tumors among most cell phone users, with the possible exception of an increased risk among the 10% of users who used their cell phones the most. [5] In the Interphone study, the top 10% of users used their phones 30 minutes/day.
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]
Wagle agrees the causes of brain cancer are elusive. “Most brain tumors are sporadic, meaning not due to a clear cause,” he said. “We still do not fully understand the risk factors that lead ...
Microwave and other radio frequencies cause heating, and this can cause burns or eye damage if delivered in high intensity, [38] or hyperthermia as with any powerful heat source. Microwave ovens use this form of radiation, and have shielding to prevent it from leaking out and unintentionally heating nearby objects or people.