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Literature Review
Cell phones didn't really begin to happen until 1973. According
to Wikipedia, during that year, a Motorola executive made an
experimental phone call to Bell Labs named after the inventor of the
telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (this is a shootout, ya'll) using
handheld device. Although some may argue that the walkie talkie
and Army-supplied mobile radio phones were precursors, cell phones
as we know them have only been around for 40 years.
The National Cancer Institute says, Cancer is a term used for
diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to
invade other tissues,all cancers begin in cellscells grow and divide
in a controlled way to produce more cells as they are needed to keep
the body healthy. When cells become old or damaged, they die and are
replaced with new cells.
However, sometimes this orderly process goes wrong. But since they
are no longer used, but daily, isn't it time that we revisit the theme of
potential harm to our health? Another way to put it is that more use
and more users mean more accumulated data, so it seems natural to
take a second look and see exactly what effect cell phones may have
on our bodies.
A set of Brazilian researchers begin from the point of view that
"pollution caused by the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) of radio
frequencies generated by the telecommunication system is one of the
greatest environmental problems of the twentieth century."

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Their purpose in conducting a study was to verify that more cancer

deaths occurred in the areas closest to the base station clusters in the
Belo Horizonte municipality, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, from
1996 to 2006. "The closer you live to an antenna, the greater the
contact with the electromagnetic field," said Adilza Condessa Dode,
Ph.D., noting that the level of EMFs in the environment was already
"high and dangerous to human health."

Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer

Institute, sent a document to staffers warning them to limit their cell

phone use and to use hands-free sets in the wake of "growing evidence
that we should reduce exposure" to cell phone radiation.
Herberman, Robert Hoover, director of NCI's Epidemiology and
Biostatistics Program, and other health officials recently clashed during
a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Domestic Policy held to
determine whether mobile phones are safe.
"Long term and frequent use of cell phones which receive and emit
radio frequency may be associated with an increased risk of brain
tumors," Herberman told lawmakers.
"I find the old adage 'better to be safe than sorry' to be very apt to
this situation."
Cell phones use non-ionizing radiation, which differs from the ionizing
radiation of x-rays and radioactive material in that it does not have
enough energy to knock aroundor ionizeelectrons or particles in
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atoms. Cell phone radiation falls into the same band of nonionizing
radio frequency as microwaves used to heat or cook food. But Jorn
Olsen, chair of epidemiology at the University of California, Los
Angeles, and School of Public Health says that unlike microwaves, cell
phones do not release enough radiation or energy to damage DNA or
genetic material, which can lead to cancer.
Three studies since 1999 indicate that people who have used cell
phones for more than a decade may have as much as three times
greater risk of developing brain tumors on the side of the head against
which they most often hold their phonean argument for, at the least,
shifting ears regularly or, even better, using an earpiece or the
speakerphone feature while chatting.
"For people who've used their cell phones for more than 10 years and
who use their phone on the same side as the tumor, it appears there's
an association," Lawrie Challis, emeritus physics professor at the
University of Nottingham in England one in 29,000 men and one in
38,000 women on average develop brain tumors each year, with
people in industrial nations twice as likely as those in developing
countries to be diagnosed with one, according to the World Health
Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in
Lyon, France. If cell phone use does, in fact, triple the odds of getting
cancer, these stats would suggest that over 60 years a man's risk of
developing a brain tumor from cell phone use increases from 0.206
percent to 0.621 percent, and a woman's from 0.156 percent to 0.468
percent.

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IARC in 2000 launched a study called Interphone Interphone compared

surveyed cell phone use in 6,420 people with brain tumors to that of
7,658 healthy people in 13 developed countriesAustralia, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand,
Norway, Sweden and the U.K.
Sue Kovach in life extension magazine (2007) told that were
swimming in a sea of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) produced by
electrical appliances, power lines, wiring in buildings, and a slew of
other technologies that are part of modern life.
Theres a huge public health crisis looming from one particular threat:
EMR from cellular phonesboth the radiation from the handsets and
from the tower-based antennas carrying the signalswhich studies
have linked to development of brain tumors, genetic damage, and
other exposure-related conditions.
George Carlo, PhD, JD, is an epidemiologist and medical scientist who,
from 1993 to 1999, headed the first telecommunications industrybacked studies into the dangers of cell phone use.
Dr. Carlos says Cell Phones Reach the Market without Safety
Testing
The rationale, known as the low power exclusion, distinguished cell
phones from dangerous microwave ovens based on the amount of
power used to push the microwaves. At that time, the only health
effect seen from microwaves involved high power strong enough to
heat human tissue. The pressure worked, and cell phones were
exempted from any type of regulatory oversight, an exemption that
continues today. An eager public grabbed up the cell phones, but

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according to Dr. George Carlo, Those phones were slowly prompting

a host of health problems.
Today there are more than two billion cell phone users being exposed
every day to the dangers of electromagnetic radiation (EMR).
Anna LeMind in Jun 3, 2014 said that excessive mobile phone use

cause brain cancer.

the use of mobile for more than half an hour a day over a time span of
five years may triple the risk of developing certain types of brain
cancer.
The duration of our daily talks on the mobile phone is directly
proportional to the dangers that may be caused by it. The learning
claims that people who on average use their mobile phone for 15 hours
per month tend to have two to three times greater risk of developing
glioma and meningioma,
The study was conducted by French scientists at the University of
Bordeaux the researchers compared 253 patients who had glioma and
other 194 patients with meningioma to 892 healthy individuals from
the control group.
Conclusion of this study says that It turns out that those who had
talked too much on their mobile phones for several years were 2.89
times more likely to develop glioma and 2.57 times more likely to
develop meningioma compared with those who did not use a cell
phone.
2 http://themindunleashed.org/2014/06/can-excessive-mobile-phone-use-cause-brain-cancer.html

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It is worth to be noted that in 2011 the International Agency for

Research on Cancer warned that radio frequency fields used by mobile
phones are potentially carcinogenic.
Michael Tricks in New York Times said From 1990 to 2002 the 12year period during which cellphone users grew to 135 million from 4
million the age-adjusted incidence rate for overall brain cancer
remained nearly flat. If anything, it decreased slightly, from 7 cases for
every 100,000 persons to 6.5 cases.
In 2010 larger study updated these results trends between 1992 and
2006 the age-adjusted risk of cancer in the front of the brain grew
slightly, an unusual pattern emerged: in females ages 20 to 29 from
2.5 cases per 100,000 to 2.6.
A U.S. study analyzed the number of cell phone subscriptions and
brain tumors in nineteen US states, they concluded, the very linear
relationship between cell phone usage and brain tumor incidence is
disturbing and certainly needs further epidemiological evaluation.

Another U.S. study of brain cancer incidence trends in relation to cell

phone use in the United States found, there was a statistically
significant increasing trend between 1992 and 2006 among females
but not among males. The recent trend in 2029-year-old women was
driven by a rising incidence of frontal lobe cancers.

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