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by adsfqwop 2735 days ago
When you extract temporal and frontal lobe glioblastoma from the rest of brain tumor numbers you get a graph like this:

https://microwavenews.com/sites/default/files/de-vocht-respo...

Not saying it's a direct correlation, this is a very difficult topic to analyze, but if you are a heavy phone user you take your chances. Cancer has a long latency period, so you may die of other causes before the damage is realized.

Personally I think other more immediate non-thermal effects of pulsed RF are of more concern than cancer at the moment. This may change, but that's what the current research seems to point towards.

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What does that have to do with radio waves? And how often do people actually put cell phones close to their head compared to 10 years ago? For all we know it could be related to increasing obesity rates.
Mine's right in front of my head (frontal lobes), as I squint to read your comment.
The radiation pattern isn't the strongest there, however. Antennae on mobiles will be strongest emitting from the back and sides, with less out the front. Any RF that gets absorbed by the body is wasted energy, so they optimise the antennae to emit away from the body in the typical orientation.