Laptop use?

[arriba]

Ii have searched for this on the internet and have not found much. Has anyone read about possible harmful effects of using a laptop several hours a day? I have a liver mass, waiting surgery, my computer is my lifeline but I wonder if I am doing a bad thing with all this connectivity? Any info out there?

PS My mass has been biopsied benign but I am having pain, wgt loss and have no strength. Of course, doctors won't tell me anything, always just see what next test shows, yada yada yada

[brainman]

I have never heard anyone even hint that a laptop could cause cancer. Sorry.

[arriba]

I know I am really overthinking this. I appreciate your responding

[rayjohn]

Hi,

I am waiting for someone to respond on this topic. I am a tech geek myself and my laptop is my life. However, i have heard that mobile phones can cause damage.

[arriba]

The main reason I posted it is because when my laptop is near my radio, especially if I turn it on, the radio distorts terribly and buzzes while the computer in close by. I have heard the same stories about cell phones and received the video that showed a cellphone popping popcorn. I am not as worried about cell use as laptop as I use laptop a LOT longer. One source I read said there is NO research being done due to dollars involved if any correlation was found between computer use and cancer.

[lostsoul]

Actually,

I've heard the same thing, that laptops can cause cancer or someone to become sterile. I think it might be an urban myth, though. Any other thoughts?

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[Jean222]

All I've ever read, indicates that laptop use 'may' decrease sperm production (d/t the heat).

If I were you, I'd try putting it through http://snopes.com/ and see if it's an urban myth.


Jean

[alondran]

How do i add a laptop to my home internet? I am getting a laptop next week and want to know if i can connect it to my home internet. I have aol wireless broadband, will it cost me any extra to add a laptop? Is it easy to connect, the new laptop will have WIFI.
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[ChemoMan]

Hi alondran

What about the title THE CANCER FORUMS dont you understand ?

Don't try and connect your laptop to AOL. It will probably explode.

[itsmelissa]

Hi,
I am a 38-yo female and uses a laptop everyday for the last three years. On June 18, 2009, I had a cancerous tumor removed in my colon (stage 3). Pretty shocking, dealing with it. But in trying to figure out why. I asked my doctor how a 38 yo healthy female could develop this disease and he said it is hereditary..Hum Maybe so...great grandmother on fathers side had it and great aunt on mothers side....Both lived a long fruitful life, after removal. But I can't help to think that the laptop may have something to do with it.

[rockstar]

I think at this point it is all speculation. I don't think there is a significant correlation between any cancers and laptop use. Otherwise we might see a huge growth in people getting cancer.

Now cell phone use and brain tumors....that's another story. lol.

[koikkeril]

I haven't heard about the laptop's causing cancer but of course I have heard Mobil phones do.
Perhaps after a year or two, we will hear about this one too!
My life is also on a computer or laptop and i do exceed the time limit for my eyes and I have wondered the same!
My brother has just had a malignant polyp removed and his business is in front of a computer/laptop.....But! my mother had colon cancer, she is a survivor of 30 years but my grandfather died of it.....I should imagine this is inherited.
This is also an era of cancer everywhere, in our food, in the air, soil through all the pesticides but what can we do, but pray!

When we have been struck down by cancer, we need the answers of "Where did it come from" and Why?
I still wonder this about my husband!

We must enjoy something out of life and my enjoyment is with my laptop and I would not be stop using it.

With cancer everywhere how are we really to know, was it that cigarette he smoked that caused my husbands cancer or was it the polluted air whilst on holiday in Delhi?

Could the laptop of caused my brothers rectal polyp to be malignant or was it passive smoking?

We can only try to eat food that has no chemical, but then the earth is also polluted!
Being that we don't really know the facts of how and why doesn't mean i am saying go and eat a bowl of asbestos. I just think that nowadays it is so much around us that it is practically impossible to put hand on heart and say, the cancer was caused by this or that?

It is really the most awful disease and I pray for those who are fighting for survival and though I have not been on cancer forum for a while, it is not that i forgot those but needed my own space.

Stress is also a number one killer and can bring cancer on, so as to speak its probably good not to worry to much if and what and why but to try your level best to eat healthy and keep cool.

My heart goes out to those fighters, being a carer full time to my husband, I know the heart ache from both sides and the most important I learn t was to keep up his vitamins, maybe we should do this before we get ill?
Perhaps as scurvy was cured by the lemon, vitamin C, in correct doses perhaps it could cure cancer, but how are we to know???

Just a little input from a carer on a laptop...

God Bless, Koik

[healthy]

It is hard to believe that laptop can bring the cancer.. May be the used of technology like cellular phone will cause something like that.. Depend on brand also..

[hpenhey]

A few thoughts on laptops.

It is my understanding that they were never meant to be kept on laps, despite the name as their fan and cooling systems need a hard surface, not soft warm bodies.

We won't know for years if the electric magnetic waves are a problem, however we have to weigh that slight possibility against the incredible usefulness of being able to connect socially. And we do know that social connections improve the odds of survival for people who are disabled by 3.6 or thereabouts. That is socially connected people do over three times better than people who are isolated.

So my thoughts are to use them on a desk, table where possible and don't worry about using them - worry is known to reduce immune functioning so enjoy your social life by way of the internet!

[tselykh]

Hi,

being a researcher in cancer biology and genome-scale biology I can tell you that there were no a single mutation discovered, which are induced by a computer-derived radiation etc. and lead to cancer development. So, I would not connect any changes in the health condition with the use of your laptop, indeed.

Tima.