Salivary Gland Tumors and Cell Phones

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A wireless phone is a two way radio, it has a transmitter and a receiver. When a person makes a call then the voice sound is converted to the nearest base station. cell phones have a type of wave called radio waves which carries the information and travels through the air at the speed of light. The waves can be absorbed or reflected by the surrounding objects before it is reached to their nearest base station. The cell phone uses in the past ten years has increased at a really high rate. At the time of 1988 there were approximately 500.000 cell phones established in the USA. Then by 1993 the usage of cell phones increased rapidly leaving it to 13,000,000. By 2006 there were more than 233 million cell users and there are still more to come. Cell phones are harming a range of people of different aged group and the children are the ones who are being affected the most each day. Today there are more than 2 billion cell phone uses who are being exposed to the dangers of using a cell phone and the worst part is that people out there don't really know the harmful effects that the cell phones are causing on them. Studies conducted at Orebro Hospital in Sweden tell that children particularly being at the greatest risk of brain tumor because they have smaller brains and a lower density of bone skull. World Health Organization has declared that any type of wireless devices that uses microwaves to communicate they were possibly carcinogenic to human. Researchers have studied and found out that adults who have used cell phone for more than 10 years are more likely to have brain cancer, salivary Gland cancer and also rare eye cancers on the side of your head where the cell phone are placed. Cell phones are dangerous Cell phone... ... middle of paper ... ...ression, stress and memory problems. Dr. Siegal Sadetzki and some of her colleagues at tel Avio university in Israel have found that too much uses of cell phones can cause salivary gland tumors and another research in at Orebro Hospital in Sweden tell that children are particularly at a higher risk of brain tumor because they have smaller brains and lower density of bone skull. The WHO (World Health Organization) has classified cell phones or any other type of wireless device is carcinogenic (able to cause cancer) to the human body. There are ways that you can reduce dangerous caused by cell phones; if you carry a cell phone around it should be in your purse and should not be put against your body, it should be a few inches away from your body. Cell phones should be used at speaker phone feature and kept away from your head. You should always plug in earphone.

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