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[rwac]

More Info: http://www.rfcom.ca/...nterphone.shtml

Journal paper: http://www.bmj.com/c...ull/331/7508/77

PS: Thanks kismet. I picked up the wrong press release ...

Edited by rwac, 15 November 2009 - 04:26 PM.

[kismet]

Phones emit gamma rays?! (neither the word phone nor mobile is mentioned in the bmj publication...) I can't make sense of your post just by skimming it: are you mixing two or more studies? Are you extrapolating data on ionising radiation to phones? If anything the above abstract is another blow to radiation hormesis.

[rwac]

http://www.rfcom.ca/...nterphone.shtml

The Interphone study is the name given to a series of multi-national case-control studies to assess whether RF exposure from mobile phones is associated with cancer risk. The International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC) has coordinated the study. Other potential environmental and endogenous risk factors are also being examined. The types of cancer studied were acoustic neuroma, glioma, meningioma, and tumours of the parotid gland.

Participating countries are Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. The principal investigators of the INTERPHONE study published a paper that provided details of the design and epidemiological methods, as well as a description of the population included in the study (Cardis et al., 2007). The population included 2,765 glioma, 2,425 meningioma, 1,121 acoustic neuroma, 109 malignant parotid gland tumour cases and 7,658 controls. The paper discussed potential recall and participation biases and their impact on the results. Others papers have also been published on (1) the validation of short term recall of mobile phone use for the Interphone study, (2) the effects of recall errors and of selection bias, (3) and the recall bias in the assessment of exposure to mobile phones from a retrospective validation study. A publication on the distribution of RF energy emitted by mobile phones in anatomical structures of the brain was also recently published in 2008(4).

Results of national studies have been published since 2004 and are summarized below in Tables (a,b,c). The combined analyses of the 13 countries participating in the INTERPHONE study have been finalized and the results are expected to be published in a peer-reviewed journal by the end of 2008.

The Interphone study group is currently working on detailed analyses for future publications such as precise localization of brain tumours using 3-dimensional radiological grid, the health effect of radiofrequency exposure at the exact location of the tumor by using a gradient of radiofrequency. Determinants of mobile phone output power from a software-modified phone (SMP) study is also in preparation. Results from both the prospective and retrospective validation studies and also data obtained from the simulation study of recall and selection bias will help make any adjustment for exposure measurement errors on cancer risk related to mobile phone use.

More information can be obtained at www.iarc.fr - follow the links to "IARC Scientific Structure" and "Radiation Group".

The Tables summarise the Interphone studies of brain tumours, including acoustic neuroma and tumours of the parotid gland.. (For complete results of studies of brain tumours, see the main menu of "Epidemiology".)

[tunt01]

wonder what the risk is for wireless lan routers/adapters. ive almost never put a cellphone against my head in the last five years (use an earpiece/headset). but wireless lans are kind of hard to go without :/

[rwac]

If your router supports it, you can turn the transmitted power way down.
If it doesn't consider installing Tomato or something similar.
Same thing on your laptop.

For example, I've set my router power to 27, 15 db below the default of 42.
And that works just fine for me.


Edit: spelling

Edited by rwac, 15 November 2009 - 06:07 PM.

[drmz]

Is this the same study as Dr Elisabeth Cardis's "Long-term mobile phone use 'significantly increases risk' of brain tumours, landmark study finds" study? (also a WHO study)

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Publication of the results of the £20million investigation have been delayed over disagreements how best to present the conclusions.
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This was 2 weeks ago. So i don't think they published it yet.

http://www.dailymail...year-study.html

Edited by drmz, 15 November 2009 - 05:55 PM.