Motorola 009 사용자 설명서

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Accompli 009 User’s Guide

Some people who have used mobile phones have been diagnosed 

with brain cancer. But it is important to understand that this type of 

cancer also occurs among people who have not used mobile phones. 

In fact, brain cancer occurs in the U.S. population at a rate of about 

6 new cases per 100,000 people each year. At that rate, assuming 

80 million users of mobile phones (a number increasing at a rate of 

about 1 million per month), about 4800 cases of brain cancer would 

be expected each year among those 80 million people, whether or 

not they used their phones. Thus it is not possible to tell whether any 

individual's cancer arose because of the phone, or whether it would 

have happened anyway. A key question is whether the risk of getting 

a particular form of cancer is greater among people who use mobile 

phones than among the rest of the population. One way to answer 

that question is to compare the usage of mobile phones among people 

with brain cancer with the use of mobile phones among appropriately 

matched people without brain cancer. This is called a case-control 

study. The current case-control study of brain cancers by the National 

Cancer Institute, as well as the follow-up research to be sponsored 

by industry, will begin to generate this type of information. 

Under the law, FDA does not review the safety of radiation-emitting 

consumer products such as mobile phones before marketing, as it 

does with new drugs or medical devices. However, the agency has 

authority to take action if mobile phones are shown to emit radiation 

at a level that is hazardous to the user. In such a case, FDA could 

require the manufacturers of mobile phones to notify users of the 

health hazard and to repair, replace or recall the phones so that the 

hazard no longer exists. 

Although the existing scientific data do not justify FDA regulatory 

actions at this time, FDA has urged the mobile phone industry to take 

a number of steps to assure public safety. The agency has 

recommended that the industry: 
•

support needed research into possible biological effects of RF of 
the type emitted by mobile phones; 

•

design mobile phones in a way that minimizes any RF exposure 
to the user that is not necessary for device function; and 

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