Living near a cell site? cancer risk?

A cell site will be put on the roofdeck of the building were living? is it true that we will have greater cancer risk?

anyone? please, i need some clarity on this issue

Yes it a very valid concern and you may want to consider the following;

As far as any possible link between mobile phone towers and cancer is concerned, there is no conclusive evidence that mobile phone towers can be a potential source of cancer. At the moment! Even at high levels of exposure, there is no substantial evidence that the radio waves, these towers produce, can either cause or contribute to cancer. Although research in this area has been extensive, there is no laboratory or epidemiological evidence at all that radio waves at the power levels associated with public exposure to radio waves from mobile phone base station antennas are associated with cancer. Having said that and as a telecommunications engineer, there are very real health concerns regarding radio frequency waves and strict safety standards that have been developed, with respect to acceptable exposure levels and safe operating distances from antennas, such as those located on the mobile radio towers.
In Australia, we recently had an incident where several staff at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology on the top floor of a building where all diagnosed with brain tumours within a 5-year period! Located on the roof of this building was a cellular mobile base station. The official response was that it was just a coincidence. Yeh right!!!
Proper design of mobile phone base station antennas should generally meet all safety standards by a wide margin.
For example, a mobile phone base station antenna, mounted 20 m off the ground and operated at the maximum possible intensity, might produce a power density as high as 0.02 mW/cm-sq on the ground near the antenna site; but ground level power densities will more often be in the 0.0001 to 0.002 mW/cm-sq range. These power densities are far below all the safety standards, and the standards themselves are set far below the level where potentially hazardous effects have been seen.
Close to the base of the antenna site, the power density may be greater at elevations above the base of the antenna site (for example, on the second floor of a building or on a hill) but the mobile phone operator must still ensure that the general public exposure limits are not exceeded. Power densities inside buildings will be lower than outside.
The power densities on the ground will generally be less than 1% of the general public exposure limits.
However, there are some circumstances under which an improperly designed mobile phone base station antenna installation could violate safety standards.
Safety standards for public exposure could be exceeded if antennas were mounted in such a way that they expose personnel if they are within 15 m directly in front of the antennas themselves. This could arise for antennas mounted on or near the roofs of existing buildings or have been tilted. So this may be worth checking out in your particular instance.
Having said all that and the fact that the evidence is somewhat inconclusive, I would be reluctant to live or work in close proximity of a mobile radio tower, as it may turn out that in the future the once thought of safe levels of radiation were not that safe at all!

Just as a side I also have cancer and have worked near radio installations and climbed many radio towers as part of my work, but always conscious of maintaining a "safe" position in relation to the electromagnetic radiation field of the antennas. Did this contribute to my cancer? I guess one will never really know!

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/cellpcs....

refer these sites ..ul get enough information.If u ask me there is safety level..and also it also depends the distance between the user and celsite.Precautionary measures will help decrease radiation

yes I believe it does increase the risk. My family specifically looked fr a house away from the cell towers and stuff.

Hmmm, sure, the companies always have our best interests at heart (not profit, right?). Look at how even the FDA blew it with Vioxx and other stuff...or how we're just finding out about the toys with lead...the L'Oreal lipstick with lead...I was very trusting a while back (then someone n my family got cancer). I am not anymore.

Of course it is safe. The companies and the government have no motivation of dollars before the welfare of people. The relationship between magnetic radiation and cancer is clear. The financial motivation to deny any relationship with magnetic radiation and cancer is so clear that it is insulting to suggest that it is not a factor.

The tobacco companies still deny a relationship with smoking and cancer too. Try bringing a suit based on smoking in to the courts and see the power of dollars at work. In the next 20 years, we will see very similar actions by the wireless providers. Deny, deny, deny!

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