It will be 15 or 20 years before long-term epidemiology studies can give us a reliable assurance that there is no cancer risk from using cell phones. Until then, we must rely upon laboratory experiments to give us the answers we need to help consumers make safe choices. Repeated laboratory findings the only verified science experiments to date have shown that when human blood was exposed to cell phone radiation, it caused genetic damage. Cancer experts call this damage a diagnostic marker for determining that a person is at high risk of developing cancer. Experiments by highly respected scientists at a North Carolina lab repeatedly found that when human blood was exposed to cell phone radiation, the blood cells developed micronuclei.
Tumors contain large numbers of cells with micronuclei.
Cancer experts have written in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute about how they use tests for micronuclei to diagnose cancer risk. After the tragic 1986 nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl, European scientists rushed to test the blood of children there. Children with large numbers of cells with micronuclei were considered at high risk for developing cancer. They were aggressively treated and monitored. The micronuclei diagnosis no doubt saved many lives.