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Feature Article:
Cell phone danger Are Cell Phones Carcinogenic? (Part Two)
By Robert Egwele |
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In 1995, Henry Lai and N.P. Singh published a study demonstrating
how cell phones damaged DNA in the brain cells of lab rats. While
Lai stated that the study provided no solid answers, he did state
that more studies needed to be done. Immediately after the study was
published, the cell phone industry criticized Lai’s research
techniques and stated that the results were never duplicated. About a year later in Australia, Dr. Michael Repacholi turned up similar results. His study looked at 200 mice, half of them exposed to digital phone radiation and half of them not. Dr. Repacholi found that cancer rates doubled in those mice that had been irradiated. The exposed mice were subjected to pulsed microwaves at a power density similar to a digital cell phone transmitting for two 30-minute periods each day. Significantly, a study done by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland found that exposing human cells to an hour of cell phone radiation triggers a response, that normally occurs when cells are being damaged. The report’s conclusion warns: “The possible RF radiation-induced breakage of the blood-brain barrier, if occurring repeatedly over a long period of time, might become a health hazard because of the possible extra-capillary accumulation of molecules that might cause tissue damage.” Many considered this study in itself a landmark in cell phone research, because it proved that biochemical changes, which were only observed in lab animals previously, can occur in the cells of cell phone users. Soon after this study, Dr. Alan Preece, head of biophysics at the Bristol Oncology Center cited six different studies as indicating that brain response times speed up when people are exposed to radio frequency (RF) signals coming from cell phones. “Perhaps we now have to accept there is an effect on the brain,” Preece stated at a London conference on the risks of cell phone usage. This study does not say that RF is harmful, but that RF certainly affects the physiology of the cell phone user, and could eventually prove to be harmful. Fairly recently, a British government-sponsored scientific inquiry concluded that while there was no evidence of a danger to health, it might be a good idea to discourage children from using cell phones, because they are more susceptible to radiation. A University of Utah researcher found that the younger the child, the more radiation is absorbed by the brain. Spanish researchers have shown that cell phones can alter electrical activity in a child’s brain for hours, causing drastic mood changes and possible behavior and learning disabilities. Some scientists even fear that cell phone radiation could harm human embryos, although no studies of this sort have been conducted.
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CELL PHONE RADIATION PROTECTION FROM THE HARMFUL EMF EFFECTS THAT HAVE BEEN LINKED TO CELL PHONE CANCER AND MAY CONTRIBUTE TO MANY OTHER HEALTH HAZARDS.
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