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Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

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Re: Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

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Post by djmdjm »

Does anyone have a link to the actual paper? As usual, it's impossible to get any useful information from a sensational mainstream science article.

The article states that they studied rats and mice at 9 hrs/day exposure (at what RF power?) but aren't reporting results for mice at this stage.

Of the rats (how many?), they found the "cancer association appeared in male rats" but no effect size or confidence interval is reported. No mention of dose sensitivity is mentioned.

So they report some cancer association (how much? we don't know. how confident? we don't know) in a small subset of their study population (excluding female rats and all mice) at some unknown RF power and at an exposure time considerably larger than what most humans would receive.

I'm sure the science behind the study is much more rigorous than this, but wow - the reporting sucks.

Re: Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

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Post by makach »

Vanit wrote: post #3

Eck, worth mentioning that science is done by consensus. Individual studies might be interesting, but it means nothing until it's shown in the context of an aggregated review.

So this is the one report people will refer to when they will justify their views on mobile use

Re: Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

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Post by voltagex_ »

Sigh, this isn't going to help the (mentally ill?) people who believe cellphones / wifi are making them sick. I wish this study wasn't paywalled, it needs some careful reading to determine actual risk.

And then, if phones are causing cancer? Do you think everyone will stop using them? Do you think Apple will go bankrupt?

Re: Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

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Post by homero »

I don't think this applies anymore due to no one using phones as phones anymore and when they do it's hands free. No more antenna to head.

Also modern phones transmit at the bottom of the device. Lastly radio power is much lower now due to much smaller cells.

Re: Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study

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Post by mcpherrinm »

djmdjm wrote: post #6

Does anyone have a link to the actual paper? As usual, it's impossible to get any useful information from a sensational mainstream science article. The article states that they studied rats and mice at 9 hrs/day exposure (at what RF power?) but aren't reporting results for mice at this stage. Of the rats (how many?), they found the "cancer association appeared in male rats" but no effect size or confidence interval i…

The paper is linked at the beginning of the article.

Abstract: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055699

Direct PDF link: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.f...

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