NU.nl check the messages on the reliability. Myth: “Scientists have definitively proved that cell phones cause cancer.”
In a Facebook message on december 6, alerts, Live to be Aware of the dangers of the cell phone. According to the post, it is now the final ten years of research, which has shown that a phone that works with 2G and 3G, to cause cancer. Also, other websites, articles about the study. Where is this research coming from and is it true?
Where does it come from?
The message of Living Consciously is to be based on a piece from the British newspaper The Mirror in november 2018. In this message, it will tell the scientist John Bucher, he and his team instructions, and have found that there is a relationship between the radiation of mobile phones and tumours in the male rat.
“The Mirror” reports that according to the study, the rats that have been exposed to telefoonstraling more tumors than the rats that do not meet the radiation exposure exposure.
What is radiation and is it being investigated? < / p>, The type of radiation that cell phones work, radio frequency radiation (RF radiation) is called. RF radiation is used for radio, television, and mobile communications. Different applications use different frequencies. 3G in the Netherlands, for example, the use of a different frequency to the 4G.
finally, the RF-radiation along the different intensities. It is well known that RF radiation at a high intensity, the body is in a bit of a can to warm up, which could be bad for your health. Why are there limits on the intensity of the RF radiation. Among these limits are designed to ensure radiation is not heat up.
What’s in the study? < / p> However, some people are worried that the mobile phone is in the normal use of the cancer it can cause. In the study, of which The Mirror, he is used to this idea of support.
The study was in november of 2018 and beyond will be published and conducted by the National Toxicology Program (NTP). This is an American government that is the danger of the substances examined. The institute has released two studies: one is about the experiments carried out on rats, and one-on experiments in a mouse model. In both species, the same tests were carried out.
The researchers write that, in mice, no apparent effects from the radiation emitted from cell phones have been found.
the Male rats had more tumors is
In the netherlands, it was a two-year experiment, in which 1.260 rats are a part of, but an effect was found. The researchers found that male rats have more of a certain type of tumour in mind when they were exposed to RF radiation. This type of cancer in men are rarely malignant. In female rats, there was no significant effect of mobile phone radiation have been found.
now, interestingly enough, appeared to be male rats exposed to RF radiation in the two-year study period, more likely to survive than the male rats who had not been exposed to the radiation.
What is it now known?
The researchers write that, on the basis of their research, no conclusions can be drawn about the effects of mobile radiation on human beings. In addition, they argue that it is the biological process by which RF radiation may be cancer, it may be the cause of is still unknown. Also, the investigators do not why RF radiation is a danger, seemed to male rats and not female rats or in mice.
The scientists propose that the timing and intensity of the radiation to which the animals in the study were exposed to several times higher than the radiation to which humans are exposed to on a phone.
Limitations of research < / p> The study by the NTP was given to the various points of criticism. The international commission for the protection against non-ionising radiation (ICNIRP), and, for example, the NTP lot of things at the same time, it has been tested: several different types of cancer, different intensities of radiation and of mice and rats.
as for The issue of a lot of things to test, that it is reasonable to assume that there is a result, it is found that significant, but it has come into existence by chance. May be it is, therefore, a coincidence that the male rats in this study lived longer when they were exposed to RF radiation. However, it is also possible to be a coincidence that these rats have more tumors in the mind.
The results were in accordance to the TESTED it is also not in line with what we know about RF radiation and cancer. In previous studies, there were concerns about a particular type of breintumoren due to radiation exposure. It was used in the study, the NTP, no significant increase in this type of cancer is found.
See also: NUcheckt: has Not been proved that the 5 G is bad for your health Conclusion < / p> a Single long-term study, found evidence that cell phone radiation may cause cancer in male rats are caused. This is certainly no proof that mobile radiation-cancer potential. It is also possible that the results of the research carried out by a coincidence that can be explained.
It’s also not at all studied or mobile phones for people in cancer treatment may be the cause.
finally, We can evaluate the following statement: “the Scientists have finally proven that cell phones cause cancer,” if false .
