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Worldwide, there are more than one billion mobile phone subscribers and around 130,000 mobile phone towers.
These towers have relatively low power levels and their antennas are seated high above ground level and the signals are transmitted occasionally rather than constantly.
Normally mobile phones connect with nearby mobile towers mainly through radio frequency (RF) waves. A good example would be FM radio waves, microwaves, visible light and heat which are forms of non-ionizing radiation.
Therefore they do not directly damage the DNA cells, which is how stronger (ionizing) types of radiation such as x-rays, gamma rays, and ultraviolet (UV) light are explained to cause cancer.
The human body consists of 70 per cent fluid hence this means that it absorbs electromagnetic radiation. Modern studies have also confirmed that mobile phone radiation can utterly affect male fertility.
A study in Germany found that cancer rates have more than tripled among people living within 400 metres of mobile phone towers or antennae than before.
The study shows that those within 100 meters were unprotected from the radiation at 100 times normal levels.
The risk of cancer quadrupled among people living within 350 metres of a mobile phone transmitter — seven out of eight cancer patients were women according to a study in Israel.
Non-thermal effects of radio frequency radiation compile over time and the results are seen more after several years of exposure.
Electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and towers also affect the environment.