The idea is this: that mobile phones are used ubiquitously, and even though the type of radiation they produce can't usually cause DNA damage that leads to cancer, given enough phones and enough radiation it potentially could
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If we look at rats, who are exposed to radiation literally hundreds of times higher than we could possibly get using a mobile phone, we see a tiny increase in risk that only happens in male rats
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It's also worth remembering that this radiation was the type used in 2G and 3G services, so it may not even apply to current phone technology!
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When we look at human studies, we see no link between cellphones and cancer at all
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Do phones cause cancer? It's very, very unlikely. Unless you spend your day bathing in them, you would be unlikely to get even a fraction of the dose of these rats
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Can radiation that is produced by phones cause cancer? That's a different question. Probably, in high enough doses, but even unregulated phones would be unlikely to give you a high enough dose
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It's also worth remembering that this study doesn't speak at all to the MAGNITUDE of the risk This is a very important point
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Would it change anything if mobile phone radiation caused a minute increase in the risk of an already rare cancer? Maybe? Probably? It's a hard question
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