Cancer Treatment Options Forum - June 21st, 2010 - 3 Comments
Can microwave radiation from cell tower cause cancer ?
One of my friend is an electrical engineer who is working for a mobile phone company for the last 3 years. His job requires him to service BTS cell towers while they are running. Recently he found out that he has seminoma ( a germ cell tumor of the testis), which is in malignant stage. We were astonished because he is only 27 and its not normal for this age. So we were wondering whether it is due to massive microwave radiation from cell phone tower. For your information my friend is a smoker too.
Actually, seminomas are very common for someone of this age. The typical age of diagnosis is 15-35 years.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/437966-overview
He’s right in the middle of that age range. There are some websites which say median age is 40. Perez and Brady’s principles and practice of radiation oncology (a common reference used by most doctors in radiation therapy for cancer) lists the age in the low to mid 30s as median. Keep in mind that median means MIDDLE. So there are many who are younger and many who are older, and this is normal.
Fortunately, these types of cancers have a very good prognosis. The smoking probably didn’t have much to do with it, but people who have already had one type of cancer are more at risk for others later in life, so maybe he should keep that in mind.
I doubt it had anything to do with the cell phone tower – as this is a pretty typical age to get this cancer. It still sucks for him, and I hope everything turns out ok. But, keep in mind, that there is no scientific biological mechanism known by which microwave radiation can cause cacner. That doesn’t mean that there is no way that it could, just that there has never been a proven link, and there is no way that anyone can discover that it would even lead to cancer.
"massive microwave radiation from cell phone tower"
a microwave gives off more radiation then cell phone towers.
Thousands of studies world wide confirm cell damage and other problems from the kind of RF that comes from cell towers. There are cancer clusters appearing all over the world in close proximity to cell towers. In some countries concerned citizens are tearing towers down themselves as an act of self defense. We are living in the killing fields of the telecom companies and your friend is undoubtedly a casualty of this industry whose products were not even tested for safety by the FDA prior to marketing.