Cellular Phone Industry Just as Health-Harming as Big Tobacco?
CELL PHONE TOWERS TRIGGER HYPERACTIVE LEUKEMIA
After earlier studies showed leukemia to be more common among mobile phone users, cell biologist Fiorenzo Marinelli and his National Research Council team in Bologna, Italy began exposing this increasingly common cancer to the same 900-megahertz frequency of many mobile networks operating at low-power outputs experienced by those living, working or studying in the vicinity of cell phone towers.
The good news: After just 24 hours’ continuous exposure, 20% of leukemia cells were killed by this exposure.
The disastrous news: After 48 hours’ exposure, these effects reversed. As the cancer’s survival mechanisms went into overdrive, three genes that trigger cells to multiply were turned on in the surviving cells, “making them replicate ferociously,” reported the Guardian. “The cancer, although beaten back for a brief spell, had become more aggressive.”
[The Guardian Nov11/02]
CELL PHONES MAY CAUSE CHILDHOOD CANCERS
It is hardly surprising that cellular phone frequencies emitting artificial electromagnetic fields alien to millions of years of evolution can trigger or intensify existing cancers.
At the University of Washington, Dr. William Guy saw nearly every test animals die from malignant tumors and immune system breakdown after five years’ exposure to low-level electromagnetic fields. The EPA found Dr. Guy’s $5 million study “to have demonstrated the carcinogenic action of this type of pulsed RF radiation.”
[Washington Post June7/95]
CELL PHONES AND CANCER
”The scientific evidence is absolutely conclusive: 60-hertz magnetic fields cause human cancer cells to permanently increase their rate of growth by as much as 1,600% and to develop more malignant characteristics. In 1990, the Environmental Protection Agency recommended that magnetic fields be classified as “Class B” carcinogens. This category for “probable human carcinogens” includes formaldehyde, DDT, dioxins and PCBs.”
[Dr. Robert Becker, Cross-Currents]
Three major animal studies show the low-level microwave radiation similar to that emitted from wireless communication devices has a cumulative effect on cancer promotion. “At the molecular level, radio waves can disrupt growth patterns and the functioning of calls - particularly brain cells and nervous system tissue,”
Doctor A. S. Michrick. [Village Voice Sept9/97]
The weak pulses emitted by today’s digital cell phones mimic the subtle signals of the body’s cells, opening internal electrical pathways to this artificial disruption of inter-cellular communication. The result can be disease and reduced brain function – including the ability to reason and remember.
[British Library Net Sept14/03]
Radiation from cell phone towers can penetrate and affect the brain. Anyone in the vicinity of someone using a cell phone can be affected by “second hand” radiation exposure. The very low frequencies are the ones that affect the brain the most.
[British Library Net Sept14/03]
CELL PHONES AND EYE CANCER
It turns out that the higher frequencies of today’s “low power” cell phones are very close to the resonant frequency of the human skull. Cancer can be caused when radio frequency radiation released by a handheld cell phone bounces back and forth in eye sockets filled with “naturally conductive” fluid. Research from the University of Essen in Germany shows how this watery uveal layer comprising the iris and base of the retina absorbs cell phone radiation with every call, increasing the chances of contracting eye cancer.
[Epidemiology Jan/01]
As a London newspaper explained, “Cells called melanocytes found in the uveal layer started growing and dividing more rapidly when exposed to microwave radiation. Since uveal melanoma starts within such cells, there is a ready-made mechanism by which mobile phone radiation might help to initiate cancer - especially in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition.”
[London Sunday-Times Jan14/01]
CELL PHONES CAUSE TUMORS
The risks are real - and increasingly documented. Now, Swedish biophysicists have found that the risk of developing brain tumors increases with phone use.
[Daily Mail Mar17/03]
Studies show that adults who spend more than an hour a day conversing on their cell phones increase the risk of developing a rare tumor by 30% on the side of the head to which a cell phone or cordless phone is held.
[Evening Standard Mar17/03]
For children and young adults, the risk is even higher.
Precaution is obviously called for, but industry and government aren't listening.
As a parent, are you? |
