Last week, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a panel of the World Health Organization, issued a report on cell phones and brain cancer. The conclusion: there may be a possible link. The subject has been studied increasingly over the last decade as cell phones have become ubiquitous in our lives, but the findings have not been consistent. The WHO announcement received a great deal of attention and many headlines read that cell phones can indeed cause brain cancer. But the report appears to leave some room for debate.
Joining us on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm is one of the 31 scientists — from 14 different countries — who contributed to the WHO report.
David McCormick is Senior Vice President and Director of the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute. He is also a professor of Biology and a board-certified toxicologist. His main areas of study concern carcinogens, cancer prevention and the biological effects of magnetic fields.
For information on how to reduce cell phone radiation exposure and to see charts of one organization’s rankings of radiation emissions from different cell phones, check back here later.
The EWG list includes more than 1000 phones; it was last updated in December 2010 (Source: Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org)
