Cell Phones And Cancer

I have a hard time saying either way whether cell phones can cause cancer. My dilemma comes from my mother’s personal experience with cell phones and cancer, and the information presented in a few of the articles refuting the idea of cell phones causing cancer. My mother’s experience stems from working the radiology department at my local hometown hospital. She has seen and heard about a few cases of young women developing cancer where they keep their phone. Because she is employed at the hospital she receives articles that lean towards the idea of cell phones causing cancer. She has started telling me to not keep my cell phone in my bra, this is a recent development of hers. This catches my attention because my mother is not one of those crazy health care workers that takes everything said for gold. For her recent interest in this matter and her personal experience it is hard for me not to disregard the possibility for cell phones causing cancer.
There are a few scientific articles that I read today that make it hard for me to believe the possibility of cell phones causing cancer. The one that comes to mind is the “Can You Hear Me Now? The Truth about Cell Phones and Cancer” by Michael Shermer. In his article he points out the electromagnetic radiation that is put out from a cell phone is 480 kilojoules per mole. Cell phones waves are …show more content…
Ms. Moyer points out that Mr. Shermer glossed over other important facts and possibilities that cell phone waves may have effect on different parts of the cell, not including the DNA of a cell. She also brings up that we still do not fully understand how cancer functions and what triggers it. I think she was right to bring up the idea that just because cell phone waves are not strong enough to damage DNA it may damage something else in the cell that could trigger the cell to go crazy and start