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Mobile phones
Cancer
🕵️ Diplotic fact-check: no good evidence that sleeping next to your phone causes cancer
Bangladesh fact-check outlet Diplotic runs five 'phone next to bed = cancer' claims past the mainstream evidence: IARC's 2011 Group 2B classification (which the article stresses is 'possibly carcinogenic', not proven), the COSMOS cohort of 264,574 mobile-phone users (no increased risk of glioma, meningioma or acoustic neuroma), an Environment International systematic review of RF and cancer (no increased risk for the main studied cancers), and the FDA/NCI/CDC positions. Sifatun Nur concludes there is 'no good evidence' that sleeping beside a phone creates a 'special cancer risk'.
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"The responsible message is not "your phone is completely harmless, so don't worry about anything." Nor is it "your phone is slowly giving you cancer while you sleep."
It is simpler than both.
The phone emits non-ionizing RF radiation. Current evidence has not established that ordinary mobile-phone exposure causes cancer. Sleeping beside the device has not been shown to create a special cancer risk."
— Sifatun Nur, Diplotic
Location
📍 Bangladesh
