Is It Dangerous to Stand in Front of a Microwave, or Just a Myth?
As a child, I was fascinated by the microwave, a seemingly magical device, and I frequently stood directly in front of it to watch the food inside spin and cook. But adults would always pull me back with the admonishment, “Standing in front of a microwave is dangerous. You’re going to get cancer.”
Despite rationally knowing that every household wouldn’t have a microwave if it caused cancer, I’ve remained cautious as an adult. With that old adage in my subconscious that microwaves are dangerous and tied to cancer, I still won’t stand directly in front of one.
To once and for all figure out if microwaves pose any health dangers to the point where standing in front of one is ill-advised, I reached out to oncologists, doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating cancer.
Can microwaves cause cancer?
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