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Many authors have questioned the safety of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation from cell phones. A photon of this radiation is too weak to break bonds or cause cancer directly. The primary mechanism through which radio frequency electromagnetic waves interact with the body is by heating the tissue, but cell phone radiation is not intense enough to cause significant heating. Serious doubts exist for indirect, nonthermal mechanisms for the interaction of megahertz and gigahertz waves with tissue. The incidence of brain cancer has not increased despite a huge increase in cell phone use over the last few decades. Epidemiological studies are mixed, but generally do not show substantial risk. The results of laboratory experiments are also ambiguous, but no mechanisms for tissue damage are definitively established. After reviewing the data, government agencies have not concluded that your cell phone is killing you.
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Roth, B.J. (2022). Is Your Cell Phone Killing You?. In: Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98774-9_6
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