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Cell Phones Cause Cancer Essay

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According to scientists, cell phones were marked as “possibly carcinogenic.”(Trottier 1 ) In other words, it means that there may possibly be a link between the use of cellphones and cancer. However, too little time has passed to detect if cell phones can cause cancer, researchers found no evidence of a link between cellphones and brain tumors and there is no evidence from studies that radiofrequency can cause cancer. More and more evidence is showing up that cell phone do not cause cancer. In one study scientist followed more than 420,00 cell phone users over a 20-year period, researchers found no evidence of a link between cell phones and brain tumors. There have been hundreds of studies done to the linkage of cell phones and cancer …show more content…

Also studies to this day provide no indication that environmental exposure to radiofrequency fields, such as from cell phone, increase the risk of cancer or any other disease. Researchers found no risk of glioma and meningioma cancer. However there was a increase risk of glioma to people who used phone a lot, but the the study was inclusive because there was a possible bias in the way the data was being collected. Another study found no brain tumor risk when comparing cell phone users to non cell phone user. Meaning people who did not use cell phones at all had the same risk of getting cancer as the people who used cell phones. Another key fact is that teens brains are still developing and are more vulnerable than adults. Even though we know that cell phones to this day show no fact of linkage between cell phones and cancer it is too early to tell. Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy (radio waves), a form of non-ionizing radiation . Non-ionizing refers to any type of electromagnetic radiation that does not carry enough energy to ionize atoms, meaning the radiation isn't harmfull. Ionizing radiation like x-rays or gamma-rays are known to cause cancer. The low radiation emitted by cellular phones, however, cannot break chemical bonds like ionizing radiation can. So, no substantial biological tissue warming occurs with radio frequencies emitted by cellular …show more content…

Say you run for about 45 minutes and lose about 500 calories if you convert that to to watts and divide it by your weight in kg you will find that you absorbed about 14 watts of microwave radiation. Can you conclude that running will also cause cancer? That is why it scientist shouldn't have posted that cellphones are possibly carcinogenic. Emily oster in her argument said “brain tumor rates are pretty much unchanged since cell phones have arrived” after so many year can we conclude that cell phone are safe? We are constantly being surrounded by radiation and you don't even know it. Radiation from your tv, radio, and wiff but the radiation again is not strong enough to really cause an effect. How long do we have to wait to get the okay that cell phones are safe to us and don't cause cancer? Even though scientist say that cell phone increase the risk of getting glioma cancer there statistic don't add up. Researches said “ cell phone use increased this risk of getting cancer to 3 out of 100,00 people to 9 out of 100,000.” However when they saw the rates from everyone in the world the rates of of cancer remained the same. From this you can include that there trial was false because if the rates jumped up to 6 more people you would have seen the rates of getting cancer go up from everyone in the world. So can we conclude that cell phones are safe to use for teenagers

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