Cell Phones are powerful devices.  In fact, many of the phones that we own and use on a daily basis are more advanced than computers produced 10 years ago. With that said, how does it make you feel that you have something like that against your head for a good portion of the day, every day?  Well it probably doesn’t even phase you, until people start throwing around the big bad C word… No not that one…

This one… Cancer is scary, there is no denying it. It strikes a chord with most people. I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that 15% percent of men get prostate cancer.  I barely know what or where my prostate is! Much less, want to even think about any kind of ticking time bomb inside me. However, I have gotten off track.  The point is that cancer is scary and it can happen to people from any number of causes.

So what about cell phones?

Cell phones employ technology that emits radiofrequency (RF) energy, another name for radio waves. These radio waves are what allow your phone to be mobile.  Based on my own limited knowledge of physics, there has to be a cause for any kind of effect.  These waves travel as the cause, and affect a cell phone tower, to transmit your conversation. This is put rather simply; however, it will work for our case. These same waves must travel and because the device is against your head, some of those waves will travel through it.  That doesn’t sound good at all, right?

But, just because it doesn’t sound good, does it make it life threatening or cancer causing?

According to the National Cancer Institute, No.  “Research suggests that the amount of RF energy produced by cell phones is too low to cause significant tissue heating or an increase in body temperature.  Research studies have not shown a consistent link between cell phone use and cancer. A large international study (Interphone) published in 2010 found that, overall, cell phone users have no increased risk for two of the most common types of brain tumor—glioma and meningioma.”

Ultimately, after my own research, the overall consensus was that there is no risk involved with using a cell phone.  However, there was always the final caveat in each of my sources that said long term studies have simply not had enough time to make a definitive statement.  So only time will tell.  Heck, 50 years from now those studies might show something vastly different, but for the time being, all we can do is trust that what we know now is good enough!

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