Can cell phone's cause cancer?

Question

I'm just asking

Answer 1

actually this is a chance , as the cell phones simply transmit waves up to space and back down , the waves can carry radiation but not in extreme amounts. I would say yes there is definately a chance but nothing to throw your cell phone away

Answer 2

Cell phones and cordless phonse emit electromagnetic radiation, which is generally considered less dangerous than ionizing radiation (chest x-rays, radiation treatments). There have been safety controversies in the past with EMF and power lines being associated with cancer, and a similar safety concern has emerged with cell phones.

Currently, the medical literature doesn't support any link of cell phones to cancer. Even statistically significant associations don't prove a cause-effect relationship which makes it difficult. As someone already pointed out, though, the time it take for a tumor to show up after radiation exposure is usually assumed to be a minimum of five years and more commonly >10 years. With radiation therapy, rarely tumors can develop decades later but there are no features of these tumors that can prove that they're related to past radiation exposure.

Frankly, I don't use cell phones if I don't have to but because I don't like to be reachable all the time and because of the cost. I currently don't worry about the health risk.

Answer 3

I don't think anyone knows. Cell phones are relatively new and we wont know anything untill the common person has used a cell phone for over 10 years. I would say that someone who uses a cell phone for 3+ hours a day may be at risk when using it at this rate over a period of several years. If you are afraid of potentially getting cancer one day because of this, you don't need to throw out your phone. Rather use a headset when you can, text when it's not neccessary to call, and use speaker phone if your phone has that, that way the antenna isn't right up to your ear whenever your using your phone. So if their is a chance of it causing cancer, you will be relatively safe.

Answer 4

The American Cancer Society keeps a detailed page concerning cancer and various causes, including cell phone usage. They continually update their site with the most current information available. There is no evidence that cell phones cause brain cancer. Studies for other types of cancer are unknown and research is ongoing. There is no evidence that cell phones cause cancer, but there is also no evidence that it doesn't cause cancer. Inconclusive.

ACS: Cellular Phones
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_1_3X_Cellular_Phones.asp?sitearea=PED

Answer 5

No. Cell phones don't emit enough radiation to deliver a cancer causeing dose.

Answer 6

of course

cell phones emit electromagnetic radio wawes, witch damages DNA, so yes damaged DNA can lead to cancer

there is no big difference between,

x-ray
UV-ray
radio-ray
etc
there all are just radiation at dirent waweleghts

thus they damage DNA more or less

and yes cell phone radio wawes are no different

anyone saying otherwise has no clue about physics or biology

ofcourse the amount is indeed small, but dna damage adds up over years decades, and heavy cell phone use

Answer 7

That sounds like something my grandma would say.