Phones are stored primarily in front pockets that are nowhere near the colon in terms of biology (almost everyone has relatively dense meaty quads and femurs between the thigh and colon) or the inverse square law.
No, the ascending and descending parts are exactly where my hoodie pockets are.
While it in now way changes the conclusion, quads are on the front of the leg; many people carry it in their back pocket.
Also, the article seems to suggest that the absolute incident rate isn’t high - which could mean that we are likely getting better at detection rather than increase in underlying prevalence.
I would be more worried about the increase of chemicals in the environment, such as PFAS and nanoplastics.
Our environment has been riddled PFAs for generations.
I'd expect a 50 year old person that uses a phone for the past 25 years to be full of holes if cellphone usage has any effect on kids using them for few years. Especially since older phones were radiating much more energy.
I am not saying that cellular radio are harmful but it's cumulative impact on dividing cells should be tested to exclude that possibility.
Except it’s not. It’s thermal. The heat from your cell phone is more carcinogenic than its EM emissions.
That's a lot of indispensable cells that do not reproduce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_muscle#Skeletal_muscl...
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/321168/effective...
- Novel chemicals in the environment?
- Composting bins now in proximity to food?
- Decline in vax rates? (pathogen-cancer route, immune response spillover route)
- Organic pesticides on organic vegetables?
With the 10-19 year-old groups, you're looking at very low overall numbers, so a 400% increase might mean something like from 10 to 50 cases a year in the US. Still, shedding light on this anomaly might uncover a major causal pathway in the older cohorts.
There is preliminary evidence "that MTB in the gut are associated with grey matter volume in magnetite-rich brain regions related to orientation and navigation" [1].
> Wonder if a nearby RF emitter can cause some of them to run amok
This was explored (and dismissed) in the early noughties [2], when cell-phones-cause-cancer was enjoying a halcyon. (I think it was radiation from CRTs before that. Probably non-organic vegetables today.)
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00343-021-0495-1
"Low-frequency electric fields influence the human body just as they influence any other material made up of charged particles"
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/rad...