ABC news has been reporting today that an Australian cancer researcher by the name of Dr. Vinnie Corana (I am pretty sure that I have the spelling wrong) has found some evidence that regular mobile phone use may be as damaging to health as smoking. However, he says that to reach solid conclusions, he would have to study his subjects over at least 10 years. I heard this story several times on KGO, but I don't see it on the ABC News website, and I can't find it on Google News. Does anyone else have information about this researcher or the study?

Alfredo: Man! I thought I could do it but I just couldn't find anything up there.

It's behind the pay to read research wall at the moment.

Here is the abstract:

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/167/4/457

I believe the link between mobile phone use and cancer is nil.

Well, IT can't be good for you!! I'm not saying that it causes cancer, BUT I can't imagine that having that device up by your ear is good, and what about the gonads?? Seriously! Having a cell phone in your pants pocket can't be healthy either! No wonder couples are having fertitlity issues, Its those damn cell phones.


Edit- Just an FYI, I'm not a licensed Dr. BUT I have been watching a lot of Dr. Phil lately!

The government conveniently redefined what ionizing radiation was previous to licensing the first cell phone frequencies. Claiming they had newer better research, they shifted the ionizing frequency up up and far away from the microwave bands that host todays cellular networks. I don't buy it. Holding a microwave transmitter up to your ear probably has a cumulative effect for those users that do it constantly. If I need to be on a call for a long time I use a bluetooth earpiece and before they were around I used a wired headset. No sense challenging physics. I worked around RF transmitters for 20 years and it just doesn't make sense that you can put the antenna right up to your brain and leave it there for long periods of time without killing off cells. Just getting the sucker a foot away makes a big difference in the density of the field. If I want to kill off brain cells, I'll have a beer or a vodka.

Thats why you should ditch the cell phone and buy an I phone.
No antenna by your brain.

But yeah, I have no doubt in my mind that people who use their cell phones for long periods of time each day are at a Huge risk of getting cancer.

No one has ever been able to document the use of a cell phone and getting cancer. Decades of tests have been done.

I think cell phone users are more likely to be killed by their inattention to their surroundings than cancer. Cellphone user -- meet MAX, or BNSF!

The KPTV news will be running a story on this study at 10:00 PM tonight.

I am a bit skeptical of these results because previous studies have not shown a link to cancer. However, just as a precaution, I wouldn't expose myself to the near-field radiation of a UHF transmitter, even if it is only a few hundred milliwatts, for extended periods of time. Even cell phones without visible antennas, like the iPhone would pose the same risk because they radiate at the same levels; the antenna is just hidden in the body of the phone.

Cordless phones, bluetooth headsets, and laptop WiFi adapters would pose less of a risk because they are much less powerful.