Can you get brain cancer from sleeping near an iPhone?

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I'm a VERY heavy sleeper, so I have my phone under my pillow. That way, my alarm can wake me up. I ONLY have it under my pillow on school nights, so it can wake me up for school the next morning.
I can't put it on my nightstand because my nightstand is a foot away from my bed (we can't move it closer because it's at an area with a weird angle and it can't get closer to my bed) and it won't wake me up for school. Another reason why I can't is because my older siblings would go through my phone in my sleep (I need my privacy, i'm a teenage girl) if I left it there.
   Back to my question, can you get brain cancer from sleeping near an iPhone?
I've been sleeping with a phone near my head since last year (I got a new phone, so that last phone wasn't an iPhone) and only when I go to school. I've been planning on sleeping that way till I graduate (I'm in 7th grade), but now that I heard that you could get brain cancer from sleeping near a phone, I rather just be late to school every morning!

april · Accepted Answer

You do know that doesn't include fridays lol..unless you're failing and have to go on saturdays for extra schoolin'.. Either way, the safety warning says keep phone in an approved case and hold phone about an inch away while phone is connecting. In other words,feel free to not mature for 5 more years and use an actual alarm clock..Truthfully, if you were that heavy a sleeper, a cell sure as hell wouldn't wake you. I see why you need the alarm on friday nights...

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Anonymous · Answer

Just for one night? No way. They don't give off more radiation than a television screen. Do you think that if you slept with your face on a TV screen for a night that you would get brain cancer? No way. Not going to happen. Not only that, but they are COMPLETELY inert when you are not making a call! They only give off microwaves when they are RECEIVING an ACTIVE telephone call. It would make this no different than sleeping with an MP3 player or something like that. And whoever told you that is a jerk.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm not completely sure, but I remember back when cell phones were huge and had the intenas and everything and you used your cell phone a lot you could get strokes and brain cancer.
If it's under your pillow, it's probably not as bad. But if you sleep with it under your pillow every single night for years and years and years, your risk might be a little higher. But technology is much more advanced, so its less likely.
If you have your ears pierced and sleep with earrings in, it's probably not smart to do the pillow thing. (just saying, that doesn't really have anything to do with cancer thou)

Lina · Answer

Yes you can. I Am a E.R. doctor and we have had many patients come in with pain in the head, brain, and sides of the head. They have had an ultrasound and those patients have had brain cancer in many parts in their brains and have had grown tumors due to sleeping with cell Phones.

Can you get brain cancer from sleeping near an iPhone?

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