Do Cell Phones Really Cause Cancer?
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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922 words · ~4 min read
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when you hear the word cancer being thrown around in technology circles as
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often as not the thing being discussed is a game console RGB setup or video
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thumbnail or maybe even an overpriced Apple product but there's one real
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discussion about how technology relates to actual cancer that just never seems
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to go away does radiation from wireless devices like cell phones cause it to
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answer let's unpack exactly what your cell phone gives off other than location
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data to advertisers to send and receive calls and data cell phones use what's
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called electromagnetic radiation the same kind of energy your car stereo
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receives and turns into sound the same kind of energy microwaves used to heat
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up your food that x-ray machines use to see your bones and even that the Sun or
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a light bulb emits as plain old visible
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light of course that word radiation might immediately make you think of a
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cancer inducing nuclear accident and that seems pretty logical think about
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how you have to wear that heavy protective lead jacket when you go in
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for an x-ray or how ultraviolet rays from the Sun can burn you and give you
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skin cancer well let's hold on a minute
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although certain kinds of em radiation can indeed pose real health hazards it's
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important to know this is restricted to higher energy varieties like UV light
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X-rays and gamma rays though you won't have to worry about that uh last one
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unless you're hanging out unshielded in outer space or standing too close to a
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nuclear explosion so if that's the case you probably have far greater concerns
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anyway the point is these kinds of radiation propagate at much higher
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frequencies than radio waves or visible light meaning they're a lot more
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energetic this is bad because they're actually energetic enough to damage your
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DNA's chemical structure when they hit your body causing mutations that can
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lead to cancer if they hit genes that regulate cell growth and even possibly
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death you've actually seen this for yourself if you've ever gotten a sunburn
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the pain and redness are actually part of your body's response to DNA damage
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caused by too much UV light but the good news is that the kinds of radiation
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given off by cell phones Wireless rotters and laptops is far too low
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frequency and therefore low energy to mess with your DNA many Studies have
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been done to examine this issue and no definitive link between Cancer and the
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use of cell phones or other common Wireless gadgets has ever been found and
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this actually makes sense the highest frequency waves currently used by cell
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phone networks and Wi-Fi are around 1900
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MHz to 60 GHz respectively by contrast
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the lowest energy forms of UV light have a frequency of around 30 million GHz so
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if ear cancer is the excuse you give Grand when you don't want to hear about
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any more stories about back when things were better you better her hopes she
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never watches this video though to be fair there's a good chance it won't
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change her opinion anyways in spite of the numerous studies many folks are
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still concerned that cell phones pose a real danger and some have even gone so
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far as to relocate to areas that have fewer radio waves flying through the air
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one such area is the United States national radio quiet Zone near the
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virginiawest Virginia border where the government has restricted radio traffic
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so it can carry out scientific and military operations more easily but in
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reality there's really no reason your smartphone should have you literally
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