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Dr Neil Cherry, Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University New Zealand, recently produced a new paper that reviews the effects of exposures from the electrical system. Entitled, “The Causal relationship between residential electromagnetic field exposures and Childhood Cancer”, it argues that “The causal relationship is robustly well-established.” In his paper Dr Cherry described EMR from electrical sources as a “new leukemia disease agent”.
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Spanish researcher Dr Marina Pollan has investigated the interaction of magnetic fields from the power system and carcinogenic chemicals on the incidence of two types of brain cancer—gliomas and meningiomas. Her subjects were 1.5 million Swedish men who had worked between 1970 and 1989. She found that: exposure to magnetic fields but not chemicals did not increase glioma risk; exposure to magnetic fields above 2 mG plus solvents increased glioma risk by 50%;
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Dr Paul Villeneuve has found a link between exposure to magnetic fields at work and brain tumours. The Canadian researcher conducted a study of 543 men with brain tumours and the same number of controls. He found that: Men who were exposed to an average of 6 mG or more had a 33% increased risk of brain tumours; Men working in higher fields had 12 times the chance of developing aggressive brain tumours, including grade III and grade IV astrocytomas (or glioblastoma multiforme).
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Two reviews have concluded that electromagnetic fields from the power system may present a risk to public health. For more than twenty years the question of whether electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from the power system contribute to health problems has been debated throughout the western world. For most of that time the fields of opinion have been polarised (if you’ll excuse the pun).
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In a study due to be released in November, Dr De-Kun Li from the US found an increased risk of miscarriage among women exposed to a maximum magnetic field of 16 mG or more. Dr Li monitored the pregnancies of 969 women in the early stages of pregnancy. Each wore an EMDEX meter for 24 hours to record the magnetic fields to which they were exposed.
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Britain’s National Radiation Protection Board has officially recognised the link between exposure to EMR from power sources and childhood leukemia. What did the report find? What has been the reaction - and what are the implications for Australians? Decades after establishing a connection between smoking and lung cancer, eminent UK epidemiologist, Sir Richard Doll, has found evidence that extremely low electromagnetic fields from the power system are associated with an increase in
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Two new studies show a clear link between low magnetic fields from power sources and childhood leukemia. In 1979 Nancy Wertheimer released the results of a five year investigation which showed that children who lived near high-current wiring were twice as likely to develop cancer as those living near low-current wiring. This remarkable and unexpected discovery suggested, for the first time, that exposures from the power system might pose a serious public health hazard.
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The following information is from a presentation by Dr Sianne Kwee, Effects of Microwave Fields from Mobile Phones on Cell Growth to the European Parliament, 29.6.00. Dr Kwee and her colleagues in Denmark conducted a series of experiments designed to show how EMR affects cell tissue cultures and their DNA replication. The researchers cultivated human cells in an EMR-free environment then exposed them to EMR, before returning them to a field-free zone for 24 hours.
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