A two-year government study has found a small increase in two types of cancer in male rats exposed to the kind of radiation that cell phones emit. Given the ubiquity of cell-phone usage, the implications of the findings are substantial, if they are replicated in humans.
Scientists have investigated a possible link between cell phones and cancer for decades, and come up with mixed results. A huge study in Australia that was released this month tracked the incidence of brain cancer from 1982 to 2012 and compared it to cell-phone usage, which went from nonexistent to 90 percent of the country’s population during that time.
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