There are simply two sides to it: phones cause cancer or phones do not cause cancer. Regardless if it is due to the continued signals being sent by devices even on standby or idle, or the heavy waves emitted during voice calls, people believe that there is a point to seeing how such electronic emanations affect our bodies.
The big scare is obviously the belief that such waves can cause the formation and growth of brain cancer in users –which is heavily based on the concept that people who use phones to make a call would have to bring the phone up to their ear and thus have a close proximity to the brain.
Of course, the notion scared plenty of people; but not enough to cause a drastic decrease in the number of users of mobile phones. In fact, one can even assume that the public enjoys the amusement of a medical scare, but would ignore the news later on; and nothing is a bigger testament to that than the ever growing numbers of people who use mobile phones.
Thankfully, the folks at International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France have discovered that there actually is no real link between mobile phone usage and the presence of cancer. According to their studies, it is all a scare. It may sound unconvincing at first, but after one realizes that they are an established World Health Organization division and that their study encompasses the study of 13,000 individuals of certain mobile phone usage habits in 13 different countries, one starts to realize that maybe these medical experts actually know what they are talking about.
In any case, it seems that no matter what the medical reports are, the bottom line is that people ignore health warnings in lieu of actually having the convenience of using a mobile phone. The past few years has seen a continued growth in the number of mobile phone users and of course, mobile phone sales.
Tags: Cancer, health, phone-usage, Research