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(@trewmte)
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I have put this up because it may impact on your lab health and safety and give you time to investigate any hazards, if there are any, in your place of work regarding this issue.

http//trewmte.blogspot.com/2009/09/cellphones-cause-brain-tumors.html


   
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Good thing my kids rather text than actually make a phone call.

Your comments sort of remind me of the cancer issues with old speed radar guns - resting on the LEOs lap while waiting for the speeder…

I also know for a fact that large amounts of rum raisin ice-cream causes brain cancer. In case you have any, please send it my way for proper disposal.


   
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(@trewmte)
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Good thing my kids rather text than actually make a phone call.

D You have my support

Your comments sort of remind me of the cancer issues with old speed radar guns - resting on the LEOs lap while waiting for the speeder…

Ticking away … oblivious to what might possibly be …

I also know for a fact that large amounts of rum raisin ice-cream causes brain cancer. In case you have any, please send it my way for proper disposal.

Oh Nooooo!!!! 😯 … I ate all the rum 'n' raisin


   
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Brilliant read indeed… I use my handy much more for texting than for talking and, after reading this report, for good reason. Now I just have to turn it off when not using it…

If memory serves correct, I believe they thought that Johnny Cochrane died from a brain tumor which was caused by cellular phone usage, as he spent countless hours on it speaking with clients…


   
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I don't text or make a phone call frequently. And usually I put the phone in my bag instead of the pocket. So the harm is not so much.


   
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(@trewmte)
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I don't text or make a phone call frequently. And usually I put the phone in my bag instead of the pocket. So the harm is not so much.

Your point about moderation ada09 is well made. Indeed answers I have seen from others have made similar suggestions and I am agnostic but heavily veering towards need more results. I did note one reply from a member of the amateur radio community who did say "but there is some evidence that rf transceiver use can raise temperature in the skull. This has been discussed in the Amateur Radio (Ham) community for decades."

In fact this issue has been discussed at conferences for many many years dealing with SAR (specific absorption rate) and the conclusion at the conference Handset '96 or '97 (I'll dig out the papers) that a handset of 2W or less was considered safe.


   
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Brilliant read indeed… I use my handy much more for texting than for talking and, after reading this report, for good reason. Now I just have to turn it off when not using it…

If memory serves correct, I believe they thought that Johnny Cochrane died from a brain tumor which was caused by cellular phone usage, as he spent countless hours on it speaking with clients…

ForensiX, you might like this response from a software engineer and you may think didn't Cochrane have a landline

"If there were a known risk, I would probably still keep my phone. Is it my inability to think in the long term, or have I just let go of any organizational skills that would make it possible for me to function without a cellphone? Probably the latter. I find this knowledge upsetting, but if it were shown that cellphones increased your risk for brain cancer by five times (instead of, say, doubling a risk for something that's already very rare), I might just be able to get an address book and landline up and running again."


   
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i suppose cellular phone does be harmful to human health due to its radiation.


   
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I once had a friend who worked in a different department to me. Due to the nature of his job, he'd spend on average around 6 out of the 8 working hours on his mobile phone, as well as taking calls in the evening.

Rather than hold the phone to his head, he put it in his shirt breast pocket and used a wired earpiece.

18 months later, he developed breast cancer, in the one breast, where his phone was always located. Proof or coincidence?

He blamed the phone and looked into research regarding linking phones to cancer. I have since lost contact and never found out whether any conclusions were drawn.

One thing did surprise me, early on there seemed to be a trend. There was an increase in the numbers of people who had some type of cancer, who's phone network operated at a higher frequency….


   
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(@batcheej)
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In my opinion too much on anything is probably not good for you, but I think the whole brain tumor link to cellphones is a bit of glamorization. If these people are developing brain tumors from having their cellphones next to their heads, wouldn't they also be getting tumors in their hands, which they use to hold the cellphone next to their head? I'm not a medical professional or claim to be one.


   
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