Is Your Child's Mobile Phone Giving Them Cancer?

Geoffrey Pilkington, a professor of cellular and molecular neuro-oncology for four decades, believes that parents should adopt precautions regarding their child's mobile phone use:“If there is any possibility that mobiles can cause tumours, it would suggest children are more vulnerable because their brain cells are still dividing. Anyone who has children wants them to be exposed to risk as little as possible. Therefore until we know more about all possible risks, not only from radiation, parents might want to think carefully about giving children a phone.” 

Is your child’s mobile giving them cancer?
by Mark Piggott, express.co.uk, 22 April 2012

IF you are a parent of the one in three under-10s who now owns a phone, you’ll be aware of the current Department of Health advice: “Children should only use mobile phones for essential purposes and keep all calls short.” If you have not read this advice, possibly because it is tucked away on an obscure website, you might now be wondering how long your child can safely use their phone before their brain turns to mushy peas.

The Government’s view is that parents should take responsibility for whether or not their children have phones in the first place.
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