Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
Remember the last time you used your phone and it left a nice warm spot on your face? - Is that causing cancer? Michael Aranda tells you all about the radiation on your cell phone. Hosted...
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A lot of people worry that their cell phone will give them cancer, which isn’t all that surprising. I mean, you’re holding a device that emits radiation right next to your brain! Terrible idea, right? Well … no. Some kinds of radiation /can/ damage DNA, which can then lead to cancer. But your cell phone doesn’t give off that kind of radiation. And even if there /was/ a way that cell phone radiation could hurt you, studies have shown that it doesn’t. Cell phones communicate with cell towers using a form of radiation known as radiofrequency, or RF, radiation. The word “radiation” is just in there because it’s a type of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum. The spectrum goes from low energy at one end to high energy at the other. Radio and m...
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A lot of people worry that their cell phone will give them cancer, which isn’t all that surprising. I mean, you’re holding a device that emits radiation right next to your brain! Terrible idea, right? Well … no. Some kinds of radiation /can/ damage DNA, which can then lead to cancer. But your cell phone doesn’t give off that kind of radiation. And even if there /was/ a way that cell phone radiation could hurt you, studies have shown that it doesn’t. Cell phones communicate with cell towers using a form of radiation known as radiofrequency, or RF, radiation. The word “radiation” is just in there because it’s a type of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum. The spectrum goes from low energy at one end to high energy at the other. Radio and m...
