Question:
I have recently been diagnosed with a skin cancer growth above my right ear. Due to my job, I am and have been a heavy cell phone user for at least 10 years. As I am right handed, the antenna of the phone is right next to where the growth is. Has anyone heard of a relation between skin cancer and mobile phone
Answer:
He didn't put any evidence forward at all. He's used a cell phone a lot and he has a skin cancer on his ear. There is no reason to belive that they are causally related.
Now most people habitually use a cell phone on one ear rather than the
other. If you took 1000 cell-phone users and showed that the incidence of skin cancer was higher in the cell-phone ear than the other ear, we may have a basis for at least suggesting there may be a relationship, which may be causal or not.
There is no such data.
Cell phones are common, skin cancers are common (and were before cell
phones). The era is a common site for skin cancer. Many cell phone users have skin cancers, and many of them have skin cancer on the ear.
Constantly bashing your ear with a bit of plastic on which there are
smearings of ear wax, sweat and hair grease, all in various states of age and decomposition (that's a cell phone) probably causes much more "stress" to the cells than the radiation. If anyone were to show a relationship between cell phone usage and skin cancer on the ear, this is much more liley to be the cause. But they won't.
