A collaborative team of international EMF activists has released
a report detailing eleven design flaws of the 13-country,
Telecom-funded Interphone study.
The exposé discusses research on cell phones and brain tumors,
concluding that:
* There is a risk of brain tumors from cell phone use * Telecom
funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors *
Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors
The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine
the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been
held up for years. Components of this study published to date
reveal what the authors call a 'systemic-skew', greatly
underestimating brain tumor risk.
The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable
phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cell phones,)
as 'unexposed'; exclusion of many types of brain tumors;
exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be
interviewed as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion
of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.
Ronald B. Herberman, MD, Director Emeritus of the University of
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has stated,
"Based on substantial evidence, especially from
industry-independent studies that long term exposure to
radiofrequency radiation may lead to increased risk for brain
tumors, I issued a precautionary advisory last year to faculty
and staff of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Since then, my particular concern about exposure of children to
radiofrequency has been supported by a report from Dr. Lennart
Hardell. Some of my scientific colleagues have expressed
skepticism about the reported biological effects, especially
DNA0A damage by radiofequency radiation, because of the absence
of a demonstrated underlying molecular mechanism.
However, based on the precautionary principle, I believe it is
more prudent to take seriously the reports by multiple
investigators that radiofrequency can damage DNA and increase
the risk for brain tumors, and for industry-independent agencies
to provide needed funding for detailed research to ascertain the
molecular basis for such effects."
Lloyd Morgan, lead author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics
Society says,
"Exposure to cell phone radiation is the largest human health
experiment ever undertaken, without informed consent, and has
some 4 billion participants enrolled.
Science has shown increased risk of brain tumors from use of
cell phones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer, salivary
gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and
leukemia.
The public must be informed."