http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/ap/eu_med_cellphones_and_cancer
The International Agency for Research on Cancert in France found that cell phones might be linked with cancer. Some experts say that this is only a possibility and that people should continue to use their phones as just like usual, including Donald Berry, who is a professor of biostatistics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. "This is not something I worry about and it will not in any way change how I use my cellphone," he explains. The World Health Organization had a week-long meeting to discuss the risks and found minimal evidence that cell phones were linked to two types of brain tumors. This study arose over a decade ago when cancer patients were asked how often they used their cellphones. Additionally, many cancerous tumors take decades to form, yet this study has only been going on for a little over one decade.
Obviously hearing that cell phones can cause cancer makes me nervous, but not enough to make me stop using my phone in general. There have been so many scares and rumors that things like drinking coffee and from plastic water bottles left in hot cars can cause cancer, but sometimes I feel like that is just all talk. This study, along with the other two I mentioned, need to be studied more in depth before scientists reveal how these things can risk my life.
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