Health Effects from Cell Phone Tower Radiation

In the debate article discuss the topics of cell phones giving off radiation and transferring it to the human brain. This is a big deal because a lot of Americans own or use phones. The article goes on to say that researchers have found that people have brain tumors and damage in DNA due to cell phones. This article deals with a lot of controversy because many people believed cell phones were the cause of brain tumors, it was such a big issue many inventors were sued in the 1990s. The debate can go on and on, however this is not keeping anyone from buying more phones.

Carrie Nevis reviewed a federal government report which was released in May of 2016 from the National Toxicology Program. To date it is the largest study done and while inconclusive and requires more research, it does state there is something going on regarding radio frequency fields. Ms. Nevis suggests we place the cell tower in another location where it will not impact children and community members.

6. Children are at an increased risk for adverse health effects from cell phone radiation. One

The third source of radiation is using cellular telephones and radio-frequency (RF) have denoted as a large effect of this type of radiation. "Early studies have shown that there is a relationship between using cellular telephones and the growth of brain tumors. Moreover, unfortunately even under laboratory conditions direct exposures to high energy of RF is difficult to quantify"(5).

The health of RF-EMFs stared January 1990 when a cell tower was buildup 800 feet from a family that had a dairy farm in Mansfield, Ohio. By the fall, the cattle herb that pastures near the tower was sick, and the children that lived near the tower begin suffering from bizarre skin rashes, that’s when the owner of the farm contacted an environmental protection agency scientist named Carl Blackman. He’s was an expert on the biological effects of radiation from electromagnetic fields (EMFs)-the kind of radiofrequency EMFs (RF-EMFs) by which all wireless technology operates, including not just cell phones towers and cell phones but also Wi-Fi hubs and Wi-Fi –capable computer, smart utility

The news has recently been highlighting the negative effects of radiation from cell phones and the detrimental effects it has on our body. However, have you ever considered the radiation from cell phones affecting your hormones as well? In the article, “Cell Phones, Hormones and Breast Cancer: Connect the Dots”, written by Sherrill Sellman representing Total Health Magazine strays from the norm and discusses the effects. Sellman highlights many issues regarding the radiation and electromagnetic field repercussions on the human body physiological imbalances.

Radiofrequency energy is a type of electromagnetic radiation. It is currently used in cell phones, and there is some concern in this area because radiofrequency energy has the potential to cause cancer. In cell phones, the radiofrequency energy is emitted from their antennas. The tissues closest to the antenna are able to absorb this energy, and because we generally hold our cell phones in our hands or to our faces, that would mean that radiofrequency energy would be absorbed by our faces or hands. This problem would not be as large if it was not for the fact that the number of cell phone users in just the United States has nearly tripled in the last fourteen years, going from 110 million users to 327.5 million, as estimated by the Cellular

First radiofrequency radiation, RFR, which is emitted from the cell phones can cause cancer and other health issues (Karaca). Health issues with cell phones have been debated since the cell phone was made. Other electrical items related to cell phones all have RFR, but all of them emit it safely even back to 1893. This also tells us that cell phones safely use RFR. But (IARC) is aware of cell phones being "possibly carcinogenic to humans” which means that RFR has some chance of generating cancer cells

-The measure of radiation emitted by cell phones is the specific absorption rate, or SAR, in watts per kilogram (W/kg).

vi. Radio frequency energy emitted by mobile phones are absorbed by tissues and can triggers the risk of brain cancer.

However there had done others study that express the connection between cell phones and different types of biological damage to human body. For example The European Journal of Scientific Research conducted a lab experiment with normal human astrocytes, an LG Verizon cell phone and MRET-Nylon chip. The experiment revealed that normal human astrocytes cell that were exposed to cell phone radiation at a room temperature without the MRET-Nylon chip decreased by 20% less . Igor Smirnov is one of the author of this experiment and he stated on his article that "It is well documented that cell phones, which emit electromagnetic fields in the radio frequency range, can cause DNA damage, headaches, blurred vision, dizziness,fatigue, short term memory loss, neuralgias, tumors, sleep disturbances, aberrant brain wave activity and changes to cerebral blood flow, including altering the permeability of the blood brain barrier" (Smirnov, 2009). Smirnov statement and finding about the emission of electromagnetic wave from cell phones gives a lot to think. Even-tough it's a small amount of radiation that is being emitted from cell-phones, because they are held very close to the head at the end of a long term usage the risk of brain cancer and others health problems will

This voluntary assignment helps me because it provides some very interesting facts and debates about the side effects of cell phone/smart phone radiation. In this course we have covered many different kinds of radiation, but we have not talked a lot about the radiation from technology. We presume this kind of radiation is too low to have serious effects on us. However, I remember that I actually had some problems when I used my IPhone (smart phone) two years ago. For instance, I started out with a headache that turned into a very serious

radiation (the kind used in X-rays) is known to cause cancer at high doses, the risks of

Cell phones affect people in many physical ways. There have been many studies dedicated to finding if the use of cellphones can lead to cancer. This concept has been proved and disproved through the years as technology has improved and our understanding of the radio waves and what they do becomes clear. Recent studies have found that there may actually be a connection. “Yakymenko’s meta-study reveals many findings of previous researchers into how radiofrequency from your phone can damage DNA”( Engel).”Radiofrequency exposure from mobile phones is concentrated to the tissue closest to the handset, which includes the auditory nerve. If this type of exposure increases tumor risk, acoustic neuroma would be a potential concern.”( Stefan). Children are at higher risk because their brains are developing and are more sensitive to those frequencies.

There is no question that some of those sounding the alarm belong to that subset of humanity who see conspiracies everywhere they look. But, investigating the subject, it became clear to me that the arguments against phones are not all the products of paranoid minds. Far from it. The fact is, considering how widespread phones are (more than 5.3 billion mobiles are in use out of a global population of 7 billion) anything that proved they were dangerous would be a highly inconvenient truth. "Mobile phones is an issue we all bury our heads in the sand about," confirms Denis Henshaw, professor of physics and head of the Human Radiation Effects group at Bristol University. "The first mobile phone technology was rolled out without really any consideration for the long-term effects, just like asbestos and smoking.