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Mobile phones increase risk of cancer, study says.
The finding is the result of the biggest ever study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organisation. Scientists discovered that the chances of developing a malignant tumour are "significantly increased" for people who use a mobile for ten years.
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16 October 2008 The Telegraph

 

French government bans advertising of mobiles to children...
New limits will be placed on radiation levels amid fears of increased risk of cancer from
phone use. New laws cracking down on children's use of mobile phones are to be introduced
in France amid growing fears that they may cause cancer and other diseases. All advertising
of the devices to children under 12 is to be prohibited under the legislation announced by the Environment Minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, last week and he will also take powers to ban the
sale of any phone designed to be used by those under six..."
Read more on Independent...
11 January 2009 The Independent

 

UK: Mobile phone use raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold...
"...Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research indicates..." Despite recommendations of an official report that the use of mobiles by children should be "minimized", the Government has done almost nothing to discourage it..."
Read more on Independent...
21 September 2008 The Independent

 

UK: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby
"Scientists found that mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to have children with behavioral problems and that the likelihood increased with the amount of potential exposure to the radiation..."
Read more on The Independent...
18 May 2008 The Independent

 

EU study on mobile radiation: DNA damage far below present safety limit!
REFLEX, a four-year study at 12 university research labs in 7 countries conducted by the Verum Foundation, based in Munich, funded by the EU at a cost of 3.2 Million Euro:

o RF-EMF produced genotoxic effects in fibroblasts, HL-60 cells, granulosa cells of rats and neural progenitor cells derived from mouse embryonic stem cells . Cells responded to RF-EMF exposure between SAR levels of 0.3 and 2 W/kg with a significant increase in single and double strand DNA breaks and in micronuclei frequency (Participants 2 and 3). Chromosomal aberrations in fibroblasts were also observed after RF-EMF exposure (Participant 3). In HL-60 cells an increase in the intracellular generation of free radicals accompanying RF-EMF exposure could clearly be demonstrated

o RF-EMF at a SAR of 1.5 W/kg down-regulated the expression of neuronal genes in neuronal precursor cells and up-regulated the expression of early genes in p53-deficient embryonic stem cells,  but not in wild-type cells. Proteomic analyses on human endothelial cell lines showed that exposure to RF-EMF changed the expression and phosphorylation of numerous, largely unidentified proteins. Among these proteins is the heat shock protein hsp27, a marker for cellular stress responses. The results of the whole genome DNA micro-array and proteomic analyses indicated that EMF may activate several groups of genes that play a role in cell division, cell proliferation and cell differentiation.

o Our results show, that intermittent exposure to a 50 Hz magnetic field causes a reproducible increase in DNA strand breaks in cultured human cells. These findings are in accordance with some recent studies with whole-body exposure of rodents to ELF-EMF which revealed DNA single- and double-strand breaks in the brain (Lai and Singh 1997c; Singh and Lai 1998; Svedenstal et al. 1999a/b).

o The guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP 1998) are 500 µT during workday for occupational exposures and 100 µT for 24 h/day for the general population. The on-set of genotoxic effects in our tests was at a magnetic flux density as low as 35 µT at 15 hours and 70 µT at 24 hours of exposure, being well below these proposed guideline values.

Researchers exposed cells in glass dishes to mobile phone signals and discovered that the low-power microwaves they emit can damage DNA, potentially causing cancer and other illnesses.
Professor Franz Adlkofer, the executive director of the Verum Foundation, said the scientists were surprised by the results, which contradicted their initial belief that there would be no damage to DNA.  "The precautionary principle is justified. At the moment I would say that it would be enough to advise customers only to use the mobile phone when they need it and not for too long, and only when there is good access to base stations."
Research Report and Summary
REFLEX - Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards from Low Energy Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure Using Sensitive in vitro Methods
Final report (large 11MB pdf) here:
Summary (small 39k pdf) here:
08 Dec 2004

 

US/Sun Sentinel: Cell phone risks cited in studies: Three groups find danger of tumors...
"Adding new fuel to the debate over cell phone safety, three European research groups in separate studies have found an increased risk of brain tumors in people who have used the phones for 10 years or more. "When you put the three large Interphone results together -- the German, English and Swedish -- they tell a story, and it begs for attention," said Louis Slesin, publisher of Microwave News..."
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01 Feb 2006 Sun Sentinel

 

Israeli Research: Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Visual Damage
"In a recent scientific study conducted by a team of researchers from the Technion, a possible link between microwave radiation, similar to the type found in cellular phones, and different kinds of damage to the visual system was found. At least one kind of damage seems to accumulate over time and not heal, challenging the common view and leading the researchers to the assertion that the duration of exposure is not less important than the intensity of the irradiation. The researchers also emphasized that existing exposure guidelines for microwave radiation might have to change..."
Read more on PhysOrg...
27 Jul 2005 PhysOrg

 

US: Officials at odds over the long-term effects of cell phone use
"The watchdogs are not watching, or they're not barking. Whatever they're supposed to be doing, they're not doing it' - 'The question that needs to be asked is if you had these findings [from recent studies] before the phones went on the market, would the government agencies ever have allowed these phones on the market, and the answer is no,' George Carlo.
Research about cell-phone use hasn't received the same media or public attention as other environmental health issues. But scientists are engaged in an escalating debate over the potential risks -- a debate that some researchers say parallels early public-health disputes about secondhand smoke and toxic chemicals..."
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02 Oct 2005 Sun-Sentinel

 

New Research: Sperm damage claims over phone radiation
"COULD mobile phones damage the health of children before they have even been conceived? Yes, says John Aitken of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales. He claims to have preliminary evidence that radio waves of the frequency used by mobile phones can damage sperm DNA in mice. 'It won't affect you, but it could affect your children,' he says" [FEBs remark: You will also find the usual industry opinion at the end of the article]...
more on New Scientist...
19 Feb 2005 New Scientist

 

UK-Powerwatch: Mobile Phones may increase brain cancer
"The media widely and incorrectly reported that the largest ever study into mobile phone use and brain cancer showed no increase in the first 10 years of use. In fact, this only applied to a rare form benign tumour, Acoustic Neuroma, and that the study did find an increased risk after 10 years of use of 1.8-fold - i.e. almost a doubling in risk. This misreporting seems to have been due to the content of an email send to the media by the Science Press Officer of Institute of Cancer (ICR) Research and the fact that it was almost impossible to get hold of a copy of the actual paper before the news embargo deadline by which time most people had written, filmed and filed their stories.
Acoustic Neuromas are very slow growing and few are diagnosed before 10 years have elapsed from the original imitation of the cancer. Some take up to 30 years to be diagnosed. So, it is most unlikely that any study would find a significant change in incidence levels before about 10 years had passed. Looking at the results of this study in that light, it confirms some other studies' findings that, after 10 years use, there is a significant increase in Acoustic Neuromas on the side of the head where the mobile phone user victim usually held their handset..."
Read more on Powerwatch...
01 Sep 2005 Powerwatch

 

Canada: Cell phones Invisible hazards of the wireless age
'Few people would be surprised to hear that cell phones are unhealthy. But how many of us actually know the degree of damage they cause, the extent of the cover-up by the industry, or that there is a viable solution? Dr. George Carlo, a mobile phone industry whistleblower, recently presented a talk in Vancouver about how electro-pollution from wireless technology can cause brain damage, cancer and an array of mental illnesses.
I checked his facts against recent, peer-reviewed scientific papers and the results were startling. Dr. Carlo explained why the industry's user manuals don't warn of these health hazards: currently, there are pending class action lawsuits against them, which threaten to expose the entire industry, similar to the cases brought against "Big Tobacco", and the asbestos and silicone breast implant industries. But what really shone brightly in Dr. Carlo's message were his realistic solutions...'
Read more on Common Ground...
December 2006 Common Ground

 

US: The Wake-up Call
"HENRY LAI HAS A VIVID RECOLLECTION OF HIS INTRODUCTION to the politics of big science. It was 1994, and he had just received a message from the National Institutes of Health, which was funding work he was doing on the effects of microwave radiation, similar to that emitted by cellular phones, on the brain. He and UW colleague Narendra 'N.P.' Singh had results indicating that the radiation could cause DNA damage in brain cells.
The news was apparently unwelcome in some quarters.
Someone had called the NIH to report that Lai was misusing his research funding by doing work not specified in the grant (the grant didn't mention DNA). And the agency wanted to know what was going on.
'It really scared the hell out of me,' says Lai, a research professor in the UW's Department of Bioengineering who earned his Ph.D. from the UW in 1977. 'I was awake all night, worrying about it, wondering what to do.'
In the morning, he sent a fax to the agency, explaining how the research fell within the parameters of the grant. The NIH accepted his explanation and assured him that all was well. 'They are usually fairly liberal in that regard,' Lai says. 'To do otherwise would stifle the scientific process'..."
more in the University of Washington Alumni Magazine...
05 Mar 2005 University of Washington Alumni Magazine

 

Health concerns over mobile phone masts prompt review
Ministers are to investigate arrangements for erecting mobile phone masts in the light of growing fears that they may cause cancer and other diseases because of "electronic smog".
They will review the exceptionally favorable rules that allow mobile phone companies to escape normal planning regulations and stop councils from considering the effects of the masts on health, even when they are sited near homes and schools..."
Read more on The Independent...
13 May 2007 The Independent

 

UK: Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
"Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take 'immediate steps' to reduce exposure to their radiation..."
Read more on The Independent...
30 Mar 2008 The Independent

 

UK: Mobile phones tumour risk to young children
"CHILDREN under the age of eight should not use mobile phones, parents were advised last night after an authoritative report linked heavy use to ear and brain tumours and concluded that the risks had been underestimated by most scientists. Professor Sir William Stewart, chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), said that evidence of potentially harmful effects had become more persuasive over the past five years.
The news prompted calls for phones to carry health warnings and panic in parts of the industry. One British manufacturer immediately suspended a model aimed at four to eight-year-olds.
The number of mobiles in Britain has doubled to 50 million since the first government-sponsored report in 2000. The number of children aged between five and nine using mobiles has increased fivefold in the same period.
In his report, Mobile Phones and Health, Sir William said that four studies have caused concern. One ten-year study in Sweden suggests that heavy mobile users are more prone to non-malignant tumours in the ear and brain while a Dutch study had suggested changes in cognitive function. A German study has hinted at an increase in cancer around base stations, while a project supported by the EU had shown evidence of cell damage from fields typical of those of mobile phones"...
more on Times Online...
12 Jan 2005 Times Online

 

IE: One in 20 may have a mobile phone illness
"Up to 5% of the population may be suffering ill health as a result of radiation from mobile phones and masts, according to a group of Irish doctors fighting for official acceptance of the problem. In a study to be released this week the Irish Doctors Environmental Association (IDEA) have identified 16 people whom they believe have been adversely affected by radiation. The medical report concludes that 'seemingly sensitive individuals' suffer 'devastating effects' from exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The survey outlines symptoms that include fatigue, confusion, tingling, temperature changes, dizziness and difficulty sleeping. It estimates that between 1% and 5% of the population could be sensitive to radiation and experience illness as a result"...
more in The Times Online...
30 Jan 2005 The Times Online

 

UK: Mobile phone radiation wrecks your sleep
"...The research, sponsored by the mobile phone companies themselves, shows that using the handsets before bed causes people to take longer to reach the deeper stages of sleep and to spend less time in them, interfering with the body's ability to repair damage suffered during the day.
The findings are especially alarming for children and teenagers, most of whom - surveys suggest - use their phones late at night and who especially need sleep. Their failure to get enough can lead to mood and personality changes, ADHD-like symptoms, depression, lack of concentration and poor academic performance. ..."
Read more on The Independent...
20 Jan 2008 The Independent

 

CNN: Cell phones can affect sperm quality...
"'We believe that these devices are used because we consider them very safe, but it could cause harmful effects due to the proximity of the phones and the exposure that they are causing to the gonads,' says lead researcher Ashok Agarwal, the Director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine..."
Read more on CNN...
18 September 2008 The CNN

 

UK: Electronic smog is disrupting nature...
"...Mobile phones, Wi-Fi systems, electric power lines and similar sources of "electrosmog" are disrupting nature on a massive scale, causing birds and bees to lose their bearings, fail to reproduce and die, a conference will be told this week..."
Read more on Independent...
07 September 2008 The Independent

 

Israel: Cell phone cancer link misreported
"The world's approximately 1 billion cellular telephone users received good news at the end of August: new research showed the devices did not increase the chance of cancer, even among those who used them for a decade or more. But the research included another part not reported in the press that experts have called 'a warning light.'
Among those who used cell phones for more than 10 years, the risk of developing acoustic neuroma, a nervous system tumor, was almost twice that of people who did not use them. The good news was reported by hundreds of media outlets worldwide, including Haaretz. Cellular carriers could not have hoped for better PR: 'Cell phones don't cause cancer!' However, the press all relied on a press release penned by the researchers that did not include the worrisome findings..."
Read more on Haaretz..
30 Sep 2005 Haaretz

 

Mobile Phones and Brain Tumor Risk
"...The research found that individuals who started mobile phone use before the age of 20 were at very significantly increased (more than 5-fold) risk of brain tumors known as gliomas as well as benign (non-cancerous) tumors on the main nerve responsible for hearing known as acoustic neuromas. According to reports, users of cordless home phones were at a significantly elevated risk of glioma too..."
Read more on Epoch Times...
25 September 2008 Epoch Times

 

Canada: Cellphones and kids
"Some preliminary studies suggest that people who use cellphones for long periods are at greater risk of developing brain tumours. And children, with their thinner skulls and developing nervous systems, may be at greater risk than adults. Furthermore, because children today have begun using cellphones at an earlier age than previous generations, their exposure will be far greater over their lifetimes.
The cellphone industry hotly disputes these findings. But the Toronto Board of Health is taking a precautionary stand and urging parents to limit their children's use of cellphones to essential purposes, to restrict the length of their calls and to have them use headsets..."
Read more on The Toronto Star...
17 July 2008 The Toronto Star

 

UK: Suicides 'linked to phone masts'
"THE spate of deaths among young people in Britain's suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the victim's homes.
Dr Roger Coghill, who sits on a Government advisory committee on mobile radiation, has discovered that all 22 youngsters who have killed themselves in Bridgend, South Wales, over the past 18 months lived far closer than average to a mast..."
Read more on The Sunday Express...
22 June 2008 The Sunday Express

 

Mobile phone use linked to tumour
UK/Finland: "Long-term users of mobile phones are significantly more likely to develop a certain type of brain tumour on the side of the head where they hold their handsets, according to new research.
The results seem to suggest health risks in people who have regularly used mobiles for over 10 years. A large-scale study found that those who had regularly used mobiles for longer than 10 years were almost 40 per cent more likely to develop nervous system tumours called gliomas near to where they hold their phones..."
Read more on The Telegraph...
25 Jan 2007 The Telegraph

 

UK: Child warning over mobile phones
Many children use mobile phones. Parents should ensure their children use mobile phones only when absolutely necessary because of the potential health risks, an expert is warning. The latest study by Sir William Stewart says there is still no proof mobile phones are unsafe, but warns precautionary steps should be taken. Sir William said children under eight should not use mobile phones at all. In light of the findings, a phone designed for this age group has been withdrawn from sale in the UK...
more on BBC...
11 Jan 2005 BBC