Comments on: Cancer Docs Warn Staff Of Cell Phone Risks

University Of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Advising 3,000 Workers To Limit Exposure

[TommyCraig]

Actually, I would be more concerned with the fact that the phone is strapped to your side for many hours. A cell phone is in contact or searching for cell towers continuously thus emitting radiation against your body. No one knows the long term effects to the body organs (kidneys, etc.)
I would advise limiting the wearing or strapping of your cell phone against your body. Remember, small cell phones have only been used for about 12 -15 years.
Just a thought...

[husein_pasha]

No matter, my dog is named "BMW".
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because you don`t have even a camel

[jackie0428]

"Mazda" is a funny name for a camel.
No matter, my dog is named "BMW".

[eggy1620]

This sounds like a decision that came out of the %u201CWhat can we think of for grant money next?%u201D committee.

[newsjunky5]

"Absurd.
Its like telling us all to stop drinking tap water."
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Don''t even get me started on disinfectant by-products, chlorine in particular. Unless you''re on a well.

[husein_pasha]

And I have a comfortable flat and mazda

[husein_pasha]

Few tousand of miles west from Afghanistan

[jackie0428]

Husein_Pasha, typing on his little Dell from his mini-cave in Eastern Afghanistan.

[jackie0428]

Absurd.
Its like telling us all to stop drinking tap water.

[newsjunky5]

"When Japanese people start getting cancer from this, I''''ll start worrying. They talk on the cell phone much more, starting much younger. "
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First, do you keep an eye on Japanese cancer rates?
(I don''t)
You''d have to, you can''t rely on the chance a news story will pick up on it. It could be up already,

Second, as with most cancers, you don''t find out what caused it. Was it more coal burning? Benzene in gasoline? The cigarette you tried when you were 15? Airborne dust from exploded depleted uranium shells from half-way around the world? Can''t tell.
There is plausable deniability for any single cause.
AND the cancer may be the additive effect of many causes. Industry relies on this.
So anecdotal evidence can be inaccurate. You have to rely on the potential for something to cause cancer, and statistical evidence (not eyeballed or intuition) and avoid those things. (Forgetting for a minute about your inherited risk factors)
Europe often bans things if they have some evidence it''s bad. In the US, we have to PROVE it''s bad, so one crooked study by the industry, and there is reasonable doubt.

[johnpatrick9]

..cancer of the brain...fascinating experience..God help the human race for our run is sooooo hazardous and the end result is always the same: "Au revoir, mon ami."

[husein_pasha]

Smoke, drink and don`t worry

[lewiston14]

U have to be kidding me. I jus love it when someone tells me I cannot do something. It only makes me want to do it more. It is bad I don''''t smoke, as I would be sure to do it

Good it will only take a couple of seconds

[yongamerica]

Every time you put a cell phone up to your ear you are in a sense putting a weak microwave oven to your ear. That''s right, cell phones operate in the microwave radio wave band.

Considering the hundreds of millions of people using cell phones, one would think there would be enough statistical data to address this question.

My truth and science overcome fear and superstition.

[johnpatrick9]

...and let us not forget the Scandanavian studies which showed that pregnant women working in front of their computers for 8 bloody hours a day suffered a greater proportion of miscarriages than women who were not chained in front of the wonderful computers....too much is invested in these technologies and people are expendable.

[husein_pasha]

We won`t use cell phones, we will write letters, we will use normal phones

[sharednotion]

If cell phones pose a health concern valid enough to justify this warning to staff by the university and by cancer centers, then shouldn''t ALL sales of cell phones be accompanied by a health warning to the public? There seems to be an inconsistency here.

[erasmus81]

"NO connection between cell phones and brain cancer. don''''t you think we''''d all have cancer like crazy, if this were the case..." Posted by noprejudice at 12:01 PM : Jul 23, 2008

Everyone is different. Some people will get it and some won''t. Just like smoking, some will get lung cancer and some won''t.

[erasmus81]

I have never had a cell phone and never will.
I know of 7 people now, who have died from brain tumors. Five of them were people that my kids knew. Kids have their cell phones glued to their ears. What am I saying? There are adults that have them glued to their ears too. You can''t even enjoy a quiet meal in a restaurant without someone yakking on their cell phone.

[dnamj]

When Japanese people start getting cancer from this, I''ll start worrying. They talk on the cell phone much more, starting much younger.