It is likely a bit more complicated than this..

MacaualyFlower wrote:

I know that there is some concern that cell phones may cause cancer.
But is there any possible correlation between the radio waves we use
to communicate, either by commercial radio or other sources and
cancer? Or what about the radio waves that are being emitted from our
personal electronic appliances? I have heard that there is some
concern that if you live near a power line that you may be at risk for
cancer. What is the state of research into this subject?

Thanks

From what I understand, there is a pretty solid set of data now collected that
extended use of cell phones actually does cause high frequency hearing loss!
That from the effects of the RF on the little hairs and the sensors they drive
which let the human hear sounds. I've seen comments that there is now a pretty
much 100% proof that this does happen. Which does make a bit more practical
sense for I suspect most of us here. In the case of cell phone (or equivalent
RF use, such as Blackberry or wireless headset stuff), I think most folks here
could suspect that the VHF frequencies involved would make a lot more practical
sense for this thought than HF and so on...

Of course more than 20 minutes a day of greater than 85DB over room reference
quiet level of any audio sounds, especially the BOOM, BOOM, BOOM of base in
songs and such, also produces permanent hearing loss for the person involved
over time. And with what also goes on in the automobile use for people seems
to include boom box issues as well as cell phone issues for many folks. So one
would also wonder to what extent either of these two motivators for hearing
loss might conflict with research work into such things.


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