UC Berkeley Research Finds Cellphone Radiation is Linked to Increased Risk of Brain Cancer
Posted on 07/07/2021
Mobile phones do produce radiation, even if it’s quite limited. Published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the study shows that cellphone use of 17 minutes per day over the course of 10 years is associated with a 60% increase in brain tumor risk. Joel Moskowitz, Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Family and Community Health, said the study shows that cellphone radiation can increase the risk of cancer and nonmalignant tumors, neurological disorders and diseases and reproductive harm. The research shows that the risk is also increased by Wi-Fi radiation. Cancers take 20 to 30 years to develop and cell phone studies have monitored periods of 10 years or less.
Joel Moskowitz also noted in his research that cell tower radiation can cause eurological disorders including headaches, fatigue, memory and sleep problems and electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Furthermore, a cellphone’s radiation increases when the signal is weak.
Increasingly, adults and children are using mobile devices at greater pace. These devices are made by makes like Apple Inc. and Samsung.
In addition, countries are in a race to build more cell phone towers in the race to 5G. Some of the negative externalities of a more “wireless” nation is the cost to public health.
Fears of cell phone radiation were covered in before the year 2000, as mobile devices started to catch on with the American public. In 1993, David Reynard sued a cell phone manufacturer in a U.S. District Court in Florida for allegedly causing his wife’s brain tumor. The case, Reynard v. NEC, was later rejected in 1995 by the court. On October 18, 2012, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that a causal link between cell phone use and tumor formation exists. Innocenzo Marcolini was the appellant.
