Ronald Herberman director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, sent a memo to employees warning them to use hands free headsets as opposed to cell phone use due to “growing evidence that we should reduce exposure” to ,you guessed it, cell phone radiation.

He believes there is an increased risk for brain cancer, so do many others.

Five months later, a top official at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)explained to a a congressional panel that published scientific data indicates cell phones are safe.

So what’s up? What’s the truth? Do Cell phones cause cancer or not?

It depends on who you talk to.

Herberman says, “Long term and frequent use of cell phones which receive and emit radio frequency may be associated with an increased risk of brain tumors,” Herberman told lawmakers. “I find the old adage ‘better to be safe than sorry’ to be very apt to this situation.”

Hoover, on the other hand, insisted that the pervasive technology was safe, testifying that “its effect on the body appears to be insufficient to cause genetic damage.”

The talk about cell phones and radiation have been around for a while.

Cell phones use non-ionizing radiation, which differs from the ionizing radiation of x-rays and radioactive material in that it does not have enough energy to knock around—or ionize—electrons or particles in atoms. Cell phone radiation falls into the same band of nonionizing radio frequency as microwaves used to heat or cook food. But Jorn Olsen, chair of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health says that unlike microwaves, cell phones do not release enough radiation or energy to damage DNA or genetic material, which can lead to cancer.

Recent research suggests, however, that although short-term exposure is harmless, long-term cell phone use may be a different story.

There have been over 3 studies since 1999 (probably more), and they indicate that people who have used cell phones for more than a decade may have as much as three times greater risk of developing brain tumors on the side of the head against which they most often hold their phone—an argument for, at the least, shifting ears regularly or, even better, using an earpiece or the speakerphone feature while chatting.

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“For people who’ve used their cell phones for more than 10 years and who use their phone on the same side as the tumor, it appears there’s an association,” Lawrie Challis, emeritus physics professor at the University of Nottingham in England and former chairman of the U.K.’s Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research program, told ScientificAmerican.com during a recent interview.

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