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MTI · #16 06-01-2011, 11:53 AM

According to the WHO, cellphones are now in the same category as lead, car exhaust, DDT, chloroform . . . talcum powder, pickled veggies and coffee.

#17 06-01-2011, 11:56 AM

Well, I guess I should be dead by now... another warning to ignore.

aklim · #18 06-01-2011, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by MTI

According to the WHO, cellphones are now in the same category as lead, car exhaust, DDT, chloroform . . . talcum powder, pickled veggies and coffee.

THIS article?

A branch of the World Health Organization announced Tuesday that cellphones are "possible carcinogens" — a statement that was met with skepticism from many American cancer experts.

By Spencer Platt, Getty Images
A few studies have found that cellphone users are more likely to develop gliomas or acoustic neuromans,

By Spencer Platt, Getty Images
A few studies have found that cellphone users are more likely to develop gliomas or acoustic neuromans,

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The statement came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which convened 31 international experts in Lyon, France, this past week to sort through data on cellphone safety.
Experts didn't conduct any new research, but instead analyzed exisiting studies, including two new ones that have not yet been published.
Jonathan Samet, of the University of Southern California, chairman of the IARC working group, said in the statement that "there could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link between cell phones and cancer risk."
In its statement, the IARC noted a possible connection between cellphones and two type of brain tumors — gliomas and acoustic neuromas. The group says there's not enough evidence to link cellphones to other cancers.
Even the IARC acknowledges that the evidence for classifying cellphones as possible causes of brain tumors is "limited."
It also lists coffee, styrofoam cups, gasoline exhaust and common medications, such as Valium, as possible carcinogens, says Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society.
"When we as consumers hear 'possibly carcinogenic,' we freak," Brawley says. "But the data is not at all certain, and needs further study. There are probably far more people killed in car accidents caused by cellphones than from brain tumors caused by cellphones."
Some people have worried about cellphones because they emit radio waves, a form of non-ionizing, low-frequency radiation. Unlike the radiation given off by the sun, tanning beds or CT machines, however, the kind of radiation given off by phones is too weak to damage DNA, however, Brawley says.
Most human studies have shown no link between cellphones and brain tumors, says cancer epidemiologist Roberta McKean-Cowdin. A few studies have found that cellphone users are more likely to develop gliomas or acoustic neuromans, but only after frequent or longterm use, she says.
Yet Donald Berry of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston notes that there's been no increase in brain cancer rates in the USA, in spite of astronomical growth in mobile technology. If anything, Berry says, brain cancer rates may be declining slightly.
The notion that cellphones cause brain cancer is "just an urban myth that keeps coming up," Berry says. "The panel somehow decided that there is maybe something here, that's possibly carcinogenic, which ranks with everything else in the world."
Brawley notes that most studies about cellphones have important limitations. Researchers typically ask people with brain cancers about their past cellphone use, then compare their answers with those given by people who've never had cancer. But Brawley says that people may not remember their cellphone use correctly — especially if they've gone through something as traumatic as being diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Georgetown University Medical Center's Peter Shields says, "'possible' does not mean the same thing as 'it will cause cancer.'"
Shields, professor of medicine and oncology and deputy director of Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, notes that there are three categories of risk: possible, probable and known. Cellphone radiation falls under "possible."
"This is nothing like asbestos or smoking, which causes cancer in 1of 10 people who smoke cigarettes," Shields says.
Occupational exposures to radar and microwaves, and environmental exposures associated with transmission of signals for radio, television and wireless telecommunication were also evaluated but not found to cause risk at this time, because there wasn't enough data available, says Robert Baan, a senior scientist in IARC's Monographs Program, which evaluates carcinogenic hazards of all kinds and convenes working groups three times per year.
Wireless association CTIA downplayed the risks.

MTI · #19 06-01-2011, 12:01 PM

The Motorola Droid commericals are fairly menacing.

lutzTD · #20 06-01-2011, 12:11 PM

I have a euro version Moto Droid. it wasnt on the list but I searched ggogle with the FCC id number and SAR in the search box and got this

IHDP56KC2: SAR 0.57 W/kg for head-adjacent use and 0.49 W/kg for body-worn use

doesnt sound too bad relatively speaking

now if they could tell me which direction it radiates worse I would know which way to put it in my pocket

G-Benz · #21 06-01-2011, 12:35 PM

So...with the younger generation using their phones texting rather than speaking, are they subject to finger cancer?

aklim · #22 06-01-2011, 02:08 PM

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So...with the younger generation using their phones texting rather than speaking, are they subject to finger cancer?

Won't be as able to give you the finger or perform sex with them would be a drawback.

mgburg · #23 06-02-2011, 12:32 PM

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So...with the younger generation using their phones texting rather than speaking, are they subject to finger cancer?

Considering that fact that they, mostly, hold the phones near their laps, I'd be concerned about the next generation of phone users...genetically speaking...three arms or X-ray vision...or nothing at alllllllllllllllllll........

aklim · #24 06-02-2011, 12:48 PM

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Considering that fact that they, mostly, hold the phones near their laps, I'd be concerned about the next generation of phone users...genetically speaking...three arms or X-ray vision...or nothing at alllllllllllllllllll........

Good. That way when I grow older there will be more young women out there that need "servicing" because their younger BF "doesn't have the tools" or the tools don't work.

IV drip of Cialis and I'll be good to go all day long. My card will read "He, give you everything you want. Boom Boom long time.".

Aklim's Stud Service. And Oldie but Goodie.