Cancer From Cell Phones
Do cellular phones cause cancer? As I walk through the doors at Circuit
City I
look around at all the customers shopping throughout the store and
wonder which
one will ask the question first. I sell cellular phones, and
many customers are
concerned with getting cancer from the phones. In recent
years, many scientists
have conducted tests, which show that cell phones can
cause cancer over a period
of time. Many shows on television have talked
about the tests and show the tests
that were preformed to determine which
ones can cause cancer. Many of the
popular phones are proven to cause cancer.
Because of this study many customers
are concerned with the use of these
phones. Have you ever wondered if using your
cellular phone will cause you to
develop cancer and possibly end your life
early? This question also helps ask
the question why is the number of cellular
phone users increasing and at the
same time so is the number of brain cancer
that is reported? Many questions
arise when talking about the use of the
cellular phones, but many of the
questions are still unanswered. This question
first arose in 1993 when David
Reynard of Florida filed a suit against NEC
Corporation of Japan claiming
his late wife’s brain cancer was caused or
accelerated by cell phone use. In
1995, his case was dismissed from court
because the judge said the medical
evidence did not prove that the cell phone
had accelerated the brain tumor.
As the study started to decrease the number of
cell phones sold, the
companies decided to test the study. Many scientists have
discussed the study
and have facts that show it is only the p.2 Jundt analog
phones that can
cause cancer. These phones run at 800 MHz, verses the digital
phones, which
run at 1900 MHz. Because the analog phones run at lower
frequencies they
require more power to work, thus in the long run they can cause
cancer. Each
phone that was tested was done so in the same manner. Most
companies now are
coming out with only digital phones instead of the
conventional analog phones
that most people have. Many of the tests that have
been conducted also showed
that the amount of radio waves that entered the brain
depends on how the user
held the phone. If the user held the phone the way it is
meant to be held it
points the antenna away from the head and in then the phone
directs the radio
waves through the phone and not the head. The amount of power
that is
released depends on how far the phone is away from the tower. Depending
on
the distance from the tower the phone can release up to sixty percent of
its
power around the head, which in return can penetrate up to an inch, and a
half
into the human brain. Many scientists have proven that a small amount of
radio
waves will enter the body, but such a small amount is actually in the
body that
it will take over fifty years to see any effects if any at all.
Because of these
tests that have been conducted already many of the companies
are spending
between twenty-five and thirty billion dollars to conduct their
own test to see
if the phones do cause cancer. The scientists have found that
depending on how
close the phone is to cellular-transmission the phone can
release as much as
sixty percent of the power around the users head. Dr.
George Carlo, a researcher
that was hired by the cellular-phone industry,
conducted this study. Because the
population in the world is constantly
rising seventeen thousand Americans will
be diagnosed as having cancer of the
brain or central nervous system this p.3
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will die of the disease. Brain cancer in the
United States has increased
about one percent per year since 1973, and the death
rate has increased less
than one percent per year. The increase of brain cancer
is seen mainly in
people who are sixty-five years of age or older. For this age
group the death
rates have increased three percent per year since 1973. For
people under the
age sixty-five, the death rate has only increased half of a
percent in each
year. Because of this many companies are wondering if the use of
cell phones
have an effect on the brain. In 1998, the cellular phone industry
added a
record thirteen million user. As the users of cellular phones increase
so
does the cause of brain cancer. However, because there are more cell
phone
users in the world does not reflect why brain cancer has also
increased. The
number of patients diagnosed with brain cancer has risen
simply because the
increase in population throughout the world. However the
stocks of the companies
slowly begin to drop as the result of these studies.
In the studies that have
been conducted the cellular phones show no signs of
causing brain cancer. They
have been shown to cause cancer in mice, but the
studies also explain that the
mice require less power to develop the
signs.