Mobile phone use: it's time to take precautions review

Endpoint

• genotoxicity/mutation: DNA-damage (strand breaks)
• cancer: brain tumors, leukaemia, salivary gland tumor, uveal melanoma; heat shock proteins and cancer
• effects on the reproductive system: sterility, testicular degeneration
• effects on the neurological system: blood brain barrier permeability
• cognitive/behavioral endpoints: long-term memory, reaction time
• hypersensitivity/subjective complaints: "microwave sickness" (including dizziness, headache, hypersensitivity...)
• sleep: sleep stage
• epidemiology: health effects, childhood leukaemia
• temperature in the head, cataract

Exposure

• • RF
  • microwaves
• • radar
  • mobile communications
  • mobile phone

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• Maisch D (2003): Children and mobile phone use: Is there a health risk?