When you have no family history of breast cancer and your lifestyle doesn’t put you at risk, you’d be pretty shocked to be diagnosed, right?
Well that’s what happened to Wendy Holt. She was diagnosed with breast cancer, and had an unusual formation of small tumors in her breast.
At first doctors didn’t know what caused it, but Wendy suddenly realized what it might be.
She believes it was her cell phone.
Wendy got her first cell phone in 1999. Upon realizing that her breasts were large enough to make her bra the optimum cell phone storage space, she began keeping her phone there whenever she needed it.
She continued this with every phone she ever had. She estimates that her phone was kept in her bra about 70 percent of the time.
When she was diagnosed, she was surprised because she didn’t feel a lump. Instead, her breast was heavy and inflamed.
What Wendy had was inflammatory breast cancer.
Doctors told her that the phone may have contributed, buit that it wasn’t that simple. If anything, it’s likely that one of the older phones over the years that caused it.
Wendy got through her chemotherapy and was in remission for a while. She said her life went back to normal—that is, until she developed a cough.
After being treated for asthma, her symptoms only got more severe, until it was discovered that her cancer had come back, in her lymphatic system and lungs.
Now, her diagnosis is terminal.
Though doctors say it’s unlikely a cell phone could put out enough radiation to cause Wendy’s breast cancer, Wendy is determined to spread the word. If you want to keep yourself safe or you have an older model phone, keep it somewhere where it won’t come into contact with your skin.
