It is Now Unofficially Official, Cellphone Use Can Cause Cancer!

Years of research has provided us with inconclusive evidence.

Press release after press release stated that there is absolutely no direct link.

International Agency for Research on Cancer - Part of the World Health Organization

But Tuesday, May 31, 2011, finally a recognized scientific organization did say something, I think.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has categorized cellphones as "possibly" carcinogenic.

Okay, the terminology they used is this: they classified radiofrequency fields associated from wireless phone use as "possibly" carcinogenic to humans based on "limited evidence".

Here is a key portion of that press release.

The evidence was reviewed critically, and overall evaluated as being limited among users of wireless telephones for glioma and acoustic neuroma, and inadequate to draw conclusions for other types of cancers.

Read IARC Press Release

Cellphone Use is Risky?

Okay, so we now know that there is a "risk". As if we didn't have any suspicions before.

But still nobody is saying that it is not "safe" to use our cellphones.

Or is that what they meant?

The Wireless Association

Of course the CTIA or the Wireless Association issued a statement on this particular scientific finding which could totally impact their industry.

And to me, their press release stated a completely different thing altogether.

Read if for yourself:

This IARC classification does not mean cellphones cause cancer. Under IARC rules, limited evidence from statistical studies can be found even though bias and other data flaws may be the basis for the results.

Read CTIA Press Release

And so, they say that there is still no concrete evidence that can prove that wireless phone usage can lead to cancer.

So there you have it.

It is Still Officially Unofficial: Cellphone Use Can Cause Cancer

So we still have status quo. It is still officially unofficial that continued cellphone use can cause cancer.

We are still not 100% sure that with the daily use of our mobile devices, we are actually increasing the risk of having cancer. Remember any other food or drink or activity now, entails a risk of contracting some form of cancer among other dangers, so how's one more item going to affect that?

Oh wait, currently there are 5 billion cellphone users globally, and this number are growing daily and from all walks of life and all ages from as young as less than a year to those over 100 years old.

Past Studies Of the Relationship between Cancer and Cellphone Use

Now all these years if you haven't been following all other related studies, at least with this latest IARC Press Release (and the response from the CTIA) it should finally dawn on you that maybe prudence should be the better part of valor.

It is Time For a Change in Our Everyday Cellphone Use

Maybe finally it is time to limit our mobile phone use, especially if we are overusing them.

Or at the very least, we should use blue tooth devices or speaker phones. Okay, at least while we are driving.

And maybe it is about time to complete stop allowing our younger children to use any of these devices.

At least until they are old enough to understand that there are possible "risks" involved.

Cellphones? Use at your own risk.