First Clear Evidence Cell Phone Radiation Can Cause Cancer in Rats

This substantially changes the debate on whether cell phone use is a cancer risk. Up until this point, the federal government and cell phone manufacturers operated on the assumption that cell phones cannot by their very nature cause cancer, because they emit non-ionizing radiation. Whereas ionizing radiation—the kind associated with x-rays, CT scans, and nuclear power plants, among others—definitely causes cancer at high enough doses, non-ionizing radiation was believed to not emit enough energy to break chemical bonds.

That meant it couldn’t damage DNA, and therefore couldn’t lead to mutations that cause cancer.

Source: qz.com