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Powerwatch UK Calls for Urgent Action to Protect Children from Epidemic of Brain and Other Tumors

There will not be enough neurosurgeons, nor money to treat people, if growth in these tumors occurs as some scientists expect, says Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch,

“In our view it is now morally irresponsible to allow children and young people under 16 to have and regularly use mobile phones held to their head or carried on their body”, says Philips, co-author of the landmark paper, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone” and the classic, “The Powerwatch Handbook: Simple Ways to Make Your Environment Safer”.

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Highlights from Powerwatch Story:

  • A forthcoming paper based on Interphone data for tumours located closest to where you hold your phone to your head (i.e. mainly gliomas in the temporal and frontal lobes) will report a significantly increased risk after only 7 years of using a mobile phone and that this risk increases over time.
  • Risk is not restricted to the highest users — some occasional users seem particularly susceptible.
  • The graph below, created by Powerwatch from a recent analysis by Vocht et al of UK cancer registry data shows the change in incidence of malignant temporal and frontal lobe tumors (close to where most radiation enters the user’s head) in UK from 1998-2007, indicating very significant rise in incidence of tumors. This is important as to date no overall rise in brain tumors is yet appearing in most national cancer registries.

 
  • Earlier this year Rakefet Czerninski and colleagues published a paper looking at parotid gland cancers in Israel over the period 1970 to 2006. The incidence of parotid gland tumors on the side of the head where a mobile phone is held rose four-fold.  See graph below.
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  • Finally, Powerwatch has provided a very valuable Cell Phone Science Spreadsheet with more than 150 studies concerned with exposure to mobile phone signals at specific absorption rates (SARs) below the 2 W/kg level that is set as the maximum allowed from a mobile phone handset in Europe (1.6 W/kg in US). Available as XLS spreadsheet or html, with main authors, title, journal and PubMed hyperlinks so that you can easily go and see the details. PLEASE SHARE THIS SPREADSHEET WITH ALL WHO ARE NOT AWARE OF THE LARGE AND GROWING BODY OF SCIENCE SHOWING BIOLOGICAL RISK FROM CELL PHONE USE.
 

Based on the evidence, it is past time for governments to take firm action to protect public health on this issue.  Those who do not respond should be voted out of office.

Please sign the EMF Petition to Congress

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