Study: Cell Phone Towers Don’t Raise Cancer Risk

A recent study by British researchers at Imperial College London’s
School of Public Health has found that, despite widespread concern
over the safety of cell phones, children born to mothers who lived
near cell phone towers while pregnant do not have an elevated risk of
cancer.

The team examined nearly 2,000 cases of childhood cancer in Britain
between 1999 and 2001, and found that there was no correlation between
how close their mother lived to cell phone towers and incidence of
cancer.

Various cancers were examined, including cancers of the brain and
central nervous system, leukemia, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The
researchers concluded, “There is no association between risk of early
childhood cancers and estimates of the mother’s exposure to mobile
phone base stations during pregnancy.” The study was published in the
British Medical Journal.

Despite the alarm and media scares, repeated studies have found no
link between cell phone use and disease. In fact, as physicist S.T.
Lakshmikumar noted in Skeptical Inquirer magazine, the power in a
standard cell phone would not be enough to cause problems: “The small
amount of power being transmitted by the phone is traveling several
kilometers to the tower. Also, the cell phone has to transmit this
very little power in all directions. The small power in the direction
of the tower passes through several walls and other obstructions, even
people, without impeding the communication”

Thus, cell phone signals are everywhere—and probably passing through
you as you read this. If the signals were carcinogenic, nearly
everyone would have cancer.

There’s no question that cell phones can be dangerous. Many
scientific, reputable studies have proved that. In fact, cell phone
use has been banned in many states for exactly this reason. But the
chief threat of cell phones is the distraction they cause, not the
electromagnetic fields they emit. According to one study, drivers who
are busy texting on their cell phones are six times more likely to get
in an accident than those who do not



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