TETRA (UK police), GSM (cell phone)
& Cancer
[back] Masts
[2008 Oct] West Dublin: Phone mast fears grow as more locals suffer cancer "We did a survey of 150 houses and 38 people in those houses had cancer,"
[Aug 2007] Orange to remove mobile mast from 'tower of doom', where cancer rate has soared
[2007] Cancer clusters at phone masts
Journal articles
Cell Phone Masts---Tenfold Cancer Increase -
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050207_tonight.asp
A 2004 study in Israel (see
study), published in the International Journal of Cancer Prevention, found
an increased risk of women developing cancer was 10 times higher in the group of
622 people who lived within 350 metres of a 10 metre high GSM mobile phone mast,
compared with 1222 similar people who lived further away from the mast (with
similar housing, lifestyles, etc). Other effects have also been reported, for
example see
here.
Cancer near a cell-phone
transmitter station. International Journal of Cancer
Prevention VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2, APRIL 2004
The study indicates an association between increased incidence of cancer and
living in proximity to a cell-phone transmitter station.
Wolf R M.D., Wolf D M.D. (2004), Increase incidence of cancer
near a cellphone transmitter station, International Journal of Cancer
Prevention, vol. 1, nr. 2, April 2004.
The study indicates an association
between increased incidence of cancer and living in proximity to a cell-phone
transmitter station.
Eger H, Hagen K U, Lucas B, Vogel P, Voit H (2004), Einfluss der
räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz,
Umwelt-Medizin-Gesellschaft, 17. Jahrgang, Ausgabe 4/2004, S. 273-356
In the years 1999 until 2004, after
five and more years of use of the phone mast, the risk of malignant blastoma for
the people in the vicinity of the phone mast was three time the risk for the
people living far away.
Media
[Media July 2004]
Police
radio system (TETRA) led to officer's fatal cancer,
family fears
[Media July 2004] Probe this cancer cluster in
kids
[Media
March 16 - 2003 Paris] FRANCE : CANCER CASES
CAUSE ORANGE TO SUSPEND PHONE MAST OPERATION PARIS SCHOOL
[Media
January 12, 2002 Madrid] Phone masts start Child Cancer scare
[Media 27/8/03
TETRA] Illness
cluster raises fears over radio mast
[Media March 2001] Fresh pylon
link to child cancer
When Carlo presented his findings to the US government, they included his estimations of 500,000 US citizens a year by 2010 contracting cancer and 25% of the population by 2014 as a direct result of mobile phone abuse. Wirelessfacts.co.uk believe this is a gross underestimation (see... dectphones and wireless networks). Carlo and his family were threatened physically, his finances were threatened, one of his homes was burned down and the fire brigade suspected arson. One of the things Carlo was supposed to ratify was SAR (specific absorption rates) based on thermal effects as a method or guideline for handset safety. This, like the ICNIRP guidelines for mobile phone mast safety, as Carlo discovered, was completely the wrong issue to look at. http://wirelessfacts.co.uk/index.html