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'No link' between laptop and testicular cancerDate: 12/10/2007 09:42:53
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Men have been told by a US health expert that the risk of developing testicular cancer are not likely to be increased by laptop usage.
Responding to concerns raised in Chicago's Northwestern University's Medill School's Medill Reports, expert Dr Boris Pasche, refuted any link between the two.
Dr Pasche, an oncologist and geneticist at Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, highlighted age as the key factor in testicular cancer development, indicating that laptop users were of all ages, but those who developed the disease were primarily in the 16-30 age group.
Testicular examination is often recommended for all young men, but Dr Pasche refused to encourage extra vigilance for laptop users, telling Medill Reports that there was "overwhelming evidence" against a link and playing down the possibility of further research on the connection.
Laptops have caused concern in the health world due to suspected risks to various parts of the body entailed by radiation and also by the heat emitted in proximity to areas like the crotch, but health advice is not necessarily necessary.
In recent years belief in mobile computers was shaken by State University of New York findings, published in Human Reproduction, which claimed negative effects on male fertility.
Placing the computer on the lap was said to greatly increase the temperature of the scrotum, with sperm production highly sensitive to heat increases – but others countered that only long and repeated lap-based usage could have such effects.
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