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A member asked:
Can resting laptop on lap/legs cause cancer of any kind? if so, how common? is doing this safe?
5 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
No: No proof yet that lap top in the lap causes cancer, only thing can happen if you take a nap may fall of and break it happened to me and most of the time warranty will not cover the repair. , !
Answered 12/10/2013
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It's safe: There's little reason to think that cancer risk is increased by any repetitive trauma that does not actually make an epithelium grow at a tremendously increased rate (as smoking does). It's fanciful to think laptops mutate genes, which all cancer-inducers must do.
Answered 2/28/2013
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Possibly: Unknown. Prolonged thermal injury is associated with rare malignancies. There is limited studies/data, but some early analysis is worrisome: http://goo.Gl/30iam and http://goo.Gl/qevno and http://goo.Gl/5fdir and http://goo.Gl/hqjgb until we know more/have more studies, best advice is to be cautious and have a pillow under your laptop while on your lap.
Answered 12/9/2013
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