Findings Show Radiation Emissions from Wireless Phones are Class 1 Carcinogens
April 3, 2014
Two important new papers show mobile phone
use as a cause of increased brain tumors. Any wireless phone, i.e. cell phone
or cordless phone, emits radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) when
it is in use. One paper shows that RF-EMF exposure from mobile (and
cordless) phones should be regarded as an IARC class 1 human carcinogen (cancel
causing agent). Current guidelines for exposure urgently need to be
revised.
After a case-control study of the
association between malignant brain tumors and mobile or cordless phone use,
confirmation was made with 95% confidence that RF-EMFs play a significant role
in both the initiation and promotion stages of carcinogenesis. Carcinogenesis
is the process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells.
In May of 2011, after the consideration of
laboratory studies, studies of long-term use of wireless phones, and data on
the incidence of brain tumors, the World Health Organization concluded RF-EMFs
to be a possible human carcinogen. Other studies have shown an
association between long-term mobile and cordless phone use with Glioma and
Acoustic Neuroma. Because of this, the guidelines for cell phone use need
to be revised and the public alerted.
Sources:
Lennart Hardell and Michael Carlberg,
“Using the Hill viewpoints from 1965 for evaluating strengths of evidence of
the risk for brain tumors associated with use of mobile and cordless
phones,” Rev. Environmental Health, 2013-0006.
L. Hardell, M. Carlberg, F. Soderqvist,
KH. Mild, “Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumors
diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use, International
Journal of Oncology, September 24, 2013, http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20131016-hardell-carlberg-papers.asp
Student Researcher: Julian
Klein (San Francisco State University)
Faculty Evaluator: Kenn
Burrows (San Francisco State University)
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