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Title: Do mobile phones cause brain cancer?
Post by: Banjo on June 11, 2011, 12:04:08 pm

If mobile phones can cause cancer, it has the potential to be another tobacco or asbestos.

The World Heath Organisation's (WHO) Agency for Research on Cancer conference in Lyon, 31 experts concluded that there was a "possible" link between mobile phones and a type of cancer called Glioma.
The WHO has five rankings ranging from "carcinogenic" to "probably not carcinogenic" with "possible" in the middle. 
The WHO is not saying there is a link - but is not ruling one out either!

There are 5.3 billion mobile contracts around 77% of the World's total population.
A billion new handsets are sold every year.

Title: Re: Do mobile phones cause brain cancer?
Post by: Philofacts on June 12, 2011, 01:11:12 pm

With people using them nearly all the time because they have "free minutes" on a monthly contract then there could  be problems.
But if you use the phone as you would any other phone then I think they are probably safe (ish)

Title: Re: Do mobile phones cause brain cancer?
Post by: Albert on June 13, 2011, 03:13:17 pm

Too many young people seem to have a mobile phone permanently glued to their ear.