Cellphones cause brain cancer?

Question

Ok, so I have recently found out the celluar phones might cause brain cancer...Is it true? My father said that this is bs, and that the news likes to make a contreversy about everything, my mom and all my friends as well as classmates agree.

I am a 13 year old girl and i have had a cellphone for about 1 year, and i use it a lot , like A LOT, 2 hours a day, and i sleep with it on near my head (nightstand), I have read on the internet that this is bad too, i never knew. Now i do not use my phone as often as other girls but enough to make me worry, i am totally willling to not use it anymore, i just want to know is it too late? I mean on the right side of my head i get weird headache pains for a few seconds but those go on the left side as well as the rest of my body, my doc. said its just growing pains.

also , my parents saw on CNN that cellphones do not cause cancer... is THAT true? i am confused as to what i should do..

so:

1. might i have cancer, and is my risk higher?

2. if i stop now can my risk go down?

3.what about all the others who use their phone waaaaaaaay more?

4.i talk on it sometimes while its charging..is that bad?

5. does it cause cancer

and 6. DO YOU HAV ANY TIPS??

(i live in canada, if that may affect anything, i have a samsung)

thanks a lot,i know i probably wont have cancer, and there is no history at all in my family, but just answer these please i really appreciate it thanks a lot!!!

( so if cell phones are bad, what about computer ad ipods and stuff i use those A LOT too....so i guess everything these days give you cancer...)

Answer 1

well yeah it is tru...just put it on speaker and u will b fine...if u have headaches DONT BE ON THE PHONE AS MUCH!!! i know that is hard, im 13 too just try not to

Answer 2

they are saying that they can cause cancer, but you would have to be on it all day long every day, so don't worry you will be fine

Answer 3

First off, I don't think it matters if there is a history of cancer in your family.

Second, I actually did get AML.  (leukemia)  And it was NOT from a cell.  You get cancers and such from exposure to certain chemicals, chemicals that your body doesn't like.  And only in mass quantity.  My leukemia is Believed to have been due to the chemicals used when they repaved the roads in my neighborhood.  Which may or may not be true.  

Cell phones don't cause cancer.  If they did, a LOT more people would be diagnosed and the cell phones would be taken off the market.

I don't think you have cancer.  You'd have a lot more things wrong with you if you did.

Answer 4

There is no significant evidence to support a link. If there ever was evidence then the media would have a field day.