Founder of The Motorcycle Cancer Risk Worldwide Petition, International Motorcyclist Electromagnetic Safety Month Proclamation, Electromagnetic Pro-Ionization Principle and patent-granted author of the international award-winning Motorcycle Cancer Book.
What is the next step for society regarding cancer-controversial environmental electromagnetic pollution?
Cancer diagnosis is rising at an alarming rate. Doctors and experts worldwide are proving detrimental health effects from various electromagnetic exposures regarding hydro-electric towers, cell antenna towers, cell phones, etc. Electromagnetic pollution and dirty electricity are taking the spotlight for cancer promotion along with many health disorders. Industry and government historical denial can no longer be considered as a solution.
Concern now includes motorcycles as extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF) excessive magnetic radiation is penetrating millions of riders through motorcycle seats. Of major concern are avid rider cancer survivors.
Some will say that I am not a doctor.
I am a regular guy just like any other rider but I know that I don’t want cancer-controversial radiation racing through my body every time I ride. For those who understand the issues both The Motorcycle Cancer Book and motorcycle cancer website prove ELF EMF radiation danger for riders worldwide warranting industry attention for safer vehicles.
At motorcyclecancer.com the YouTube videos prove excessive ELF EMF magnetic radiation is flooding riders. The motorcycle cancer website provides an extensive list of evidence from doctors and experts proving non-ionizing, non-thermal ELF EMF radiation danger. These courageous men and women are true heroes attempting to restore an electromagnetic environmentally safer world through awareness and education. Their nonprofit work and publications establish a foundation for all to recognize. Unfortunately, proof becomes synonymous with opinion when science meets commerce.
Organizations are designed to protect governments and industry from creating public panic regarding health issues. However, ulterior motive billion-dollar industry intervention of electromagnetic scientific integrity has opened a Pandora’s Box compromising consumer trust regarding proof assessment.
To pacify public inquiry of electromagnetic health issues officially named organizations and websites claim "everything is fine" regarding various EMF exposures. However, recent reports prove otherwise by establishing detrimental bio-effects from non-ionizing, non-thermal electromagnetic radiations way below existing exposure guidelines.
Many respected non-profit organizations such as The BioInitiative Group reveal the urgent need for proper safety regulations regarding various ELF EMF close exposures. Whereas, industry-funded, cleverly worded reports create confusion rather than concern generating a false sense of well being for society. Manufacturing of doubt attempts to absolve accountability.
Let’s consider the cell phone controversy regarding children and detrimental health effects. The billion-dollar wireless industry claims that “everything is fine” and that the radiation exposure is within government standards, however; in various countries, restriction and/or banning of phone use by children is now taking place for health precaution. Historically, many products were recalled or banned only after public recognition of consumer harm. Truth is evident within the heart long before proof is recognized by industry.
The cell phone danger is not fully understood and not yet recognized by some doctors, however, proof of danger is all that we need to make rational health decisions. Regarding difficult situations, governments adopt the Precautionary Principle. In comparison with wireless communication higher frequencies the motorcycle cancer website exposes the greater penetrating danger of current-induced ELF EMF magnetic field radiation invading riders. At present there are no rational regulations whatsoever to protect motorcyclists from excessive ELF EMF magnetic radiation emission penetrating the groin and entire torso.
The motorcycle industry needs to recognize, cooperate and support rational precautionary safety guidelines to reduce rider health risk from excessive ELF EMF radiation above motorcycle seats.
People have a right to physiological integrity without synthetic electromagnetic intervention.
I feel that we are all rebels inside. Not necessarily “born to be wild” but “born to be free”. Freedom of style and spirit allows us to be individuals – yet we can all share the same concerns.
Please visit the motorcycle cancer website for further information.
NEWS RELEASE : Randall-Dale-Chipkar-ELF-EMF-Radiation
Below are
excerpts from various informative websites. I hope you will read all of them.
The courageous doctors and scientists are true heroes revealing ELF EMF
radiation danger for public awareness and safety. Their nonprofit work and publications
establish a foundation for all to recognize. The truth will prevail regardless
of ulterior-motive industrial and political intervention.
As a society
we still have a voice to speak out for justice.
Sweden lists
electromagnetic fields (EMFs) as Class 2 Carcinogens.
"...Sweden
has concluded that EMFs do lead to higher rates of cancer ... I, frankly was
somewhat impressed by the arguments made by the Swedes." - President
Bill Clinton
Dr. Larry
Anderson’s Battelle Lab studies implicated both magnetic and electric field as
causes of cancer.
“Electromagnetic
fields are associated with the development of leukemia, brain cancer and other
serious diseases." Paul Brodeur, writer, The New Yorker Magazine, author of Currents
of Death (Simon and Schuster), and The Great Power Line Coverup
(Little, Brown).
“I have never
seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely approached the weight of
evidence that we're seeing with ELF [extremely low frequency] electromagnetic
fields. Clearly there is something here."
Martin Halper, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director of Analysis and Support.
Martin Halper, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director of Analysis and Support.
Drs. Raymond
Neutra, Vincent DelPizzo and Geraldine Lee, who wrote the report, conclude that
they "are inclined to believe" that EMFs are a cause of childhood leukemia,
adult brain cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and miscarriages.
Dr. Marino
concludes that "the existing state of scientific evidence warrants the
inference that EMFs can be a health risk and, for this reason, that steps ought
to be taken to avoid exposure."
A working group
assembled by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has
unanimously concluded that power-frequency magnetic fields are possible human
carcinogens.
The makeup of
the IARC panel spanned all sides of the EMF controversy, from those who openly
believe that EMFs promote cancer to industry consultants who are skeptical of
any such connection. "We all agreed," said Dr. Larry Anderson. EMFs
have now been formal1y designated "2B Possible Carcinogens".
"There was a unanimous feeling about it," said Dr. Jan Stolwijk.
"There was a unanimous feeling about it," said Dr. Jan Stolwijk.
A working group
of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), using the
same IARC criteria, also classified EMFs as 2B possible human carcinogens, a
view that NIEHS Director Kenneth Olden later endorsed in his report to
Congress.
The Office of
Technology Assessment of the Congress of the United States recommends a policy
of "prudent avoidance". Prudent avoidance means to measure fields and act to
reduce exposure.
The NY State
Dept. of Health does EMF tests for schools upon request and provides
information on "prudent avoidance measures"
as needed.
USA Today conducted a survey of 4,567 readers and
reported that electromagnetic fields, or EMFs, are the number one environmental
concern in America. "EMFs - always present near power lines and working
electrical appliances - are linked to such diseases as leukemia and breast cancer."
Linet study
researchers stated four times that there is a statistically significant
increase in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in children exposed to powerline
magnetic EMFs in excess of 3Mg.
A new and
innovative epidemiological study has found an up to six fold increased risk of
spontaneous abortions among women exposed to magnetic fields of 16 mG or
greater. The results “should have wide implications,” concludes Dr. DeKun Li,
who led the study team at Kaiser Permanente’s research division in Oakland, CA.
Dr. David
Carpenter, former Executive Secretary of the New York Power Lines Project and
now Dean of the State of New York School of Public Health, is quoted by Ellen
Sugarman as stating:
"I am now
convinced that EMFs pose a health hazard. There is a statistical association
between magnetic fields and cancer that goes beyond the shadow of reasonable
doubt. I think there is clear evidence that exposure to EMFs increases the risk
for cancer. This is most clear with leukemia and brain tumours, but in the
residential studies, statistical significance increased for all kinds of
cancer. And we're just beginning to have a whole body of evidence that
reproductive cancers are increased by exposure."
Dr. David
Carpenter, dean of public health at SUNY in Albany, N.Y., headed the utility
industry's New York Power Lines Project, a five million dollar review of the
carcinogenicity of magnetic fields. According to Dr. Carpenter, "The
Savitz study changed my entire view of the field, and it has enormous
implications." Fortune Magazine wrote: "Based of those results, he
estimates that up to 30% of all childhood cancers may be attributable to ELF
fields." "That's conservative," Dr. Carpenter added.
“This is really harming people."
Dr. David Carpenter, Dean, School of Public
Health, State University of New York, Albany.
Dr. Russell
Reiter believes that a variety of different cancers may be promoted by magnetic
fields. he explained that "the suppression of melatonin by magnetic fields
could result in a higher incidence of cancer in any tissue," This effect
could clear up "one of the mysteries of the magnetic field/cancer
issue," that is, "the large number of different types that have
reportedly increased," he suggested.
Heart disease
has also been implicated, according to a report in the July/August issue of Microwave
News. EMF exposure can alter heart rhymes and may lead to elevated cardiac
risks, according to Dr. Antonio Sastre of the Midwest Research Institute in
Kansas city, MO.
Liburdy and his
collaborator, Dr. Joan Harland, both of the Berkely National Lab have also
found that 12 mG magnetic fields can block the growth inhibition of tamoxifen, a drug used to control breast cancer. The Battelle group confirmed this
finding, too.
Decreased
Melantonin and Breast Cancer - Researchers at
the Pacific NW Lab in Richland, Washington, found that reduced concentrations
of melatonin can spur breast cancer.
Tamoxifen: This is crucial information for anyone
with breast cancer, or any form of cancer.
Electromagnetic fields have been found to increase the growth rate of cancer
and to block the anti-cancer action of melatonin,
tamoxifen, calmodulin antagonist W-13 and
antiestrogen ICI. Shivani Arjuna
Even a cursory
review of the main data set shows a 53% increase in leukaemia incidence at
magnetic field exposure levels above 2 mG; a 72% increase (which is
statistically significant) above 3 mG; and a more than 600% increase at
exposures of between 4 and 5 mG. Shivani Arjuna
Excerpts from
comments of Cindy Sage, Sage Associates, California
There is a
growing body of scientific evidence supporting an association between EMF
exposure and many cancers, including breast cancer.
Studies on MCF-7
human breast cancer cells show EMF (magnetic
field) exposure at 12 mG blocks the tumor-suppressing action of melatonin, causing cell proliferation of malignant
cells.
Similar cell
studies show the beneficial effect of tamoxifen
is also blocked at 12 mG EMF (magnetic field) levels. This
suggests action may be needed to assess whether the environment of women taking
tamoxifen is highly
EMF exposed. No such controls are now evident in either clinical trials of tamoxifen or for those on tamoxifen therapy.
Those taking tamoxifen as therapy should be advised to evaluate
and consider reducing their EMF exposure.
You can measure
electromagnetic field levels in your house or workplace with a gauss meter.
Conclusive
scientific evidence should not be required to establish reasonable interim
policies for prudent avoidance of EMF exposure. Consensus of industry
scientists should not be a prerequisite for action in determining when a causal
link between EMF and breast cancer has been
achieved.
The
constellation of relevant scientific papers providing mutually-reinforcing
evidence for an association between power-frequency electromagnetic fields
(ELF-EMF) and breast cancer is strongly
supported in the scientific literature.
ELF at environmental
levels negatively affects the oncostatic effects of both melatonin and tamoxifen
on human breast cancer cells. Numerous
epidemiological studies over the last two decades have reported increased risk
of male and female breast cancer with exposures
to residential and occupational levels of ELF. Animal studies have reported
increased mammary tumor size and incidence in association with ELF exposure.
ELF limits for
public exposure should be revised to reflect increased risk of breast cancer at environmental levels possibly as low
as 2 mG or 3 mG; certainly as low as 4 mG.
Discover
Magazine postulated, aside from making our lives easier, is electricity also
making our lives shorter? Perhaps a more important question is "Until more
is known, what can we do to minimize the potential risks?"
Prof. M. Granger
Morgan, a well-known expert at Carnegie Mellon University, says it certainly
can't hurt to take simple steps. Prof. Morgan advocates "prudent avoidance". Hence, prudent
avoidance means that we should avoid exposure to EMF when it is
consistent with sound judgment.
Germany’s
Radiation Protection Commission is recommending a policy of prudent avoidance.
In a report, the
panel—known by its German acronym SSK—states that it has confidence in the
ICNIRP standards. But it calls for “minimizing” exposures to both ELF and RF/MW
EMFs to the extent “technically and economically reasonable,” especially in
locations where people spend extended periods of time.
More frequently
than guidelines, governments have adopted “prudent
avoidance,” a concept introduced by M. Granger Morgan, H. Keith Florig,
and Indira Nair at Carnegie Mellon University.
While doing
research for the New York State Power Lines Project Dr. Jerry Phillips and Dr.
Wendell Winters discovered that human cancer cells proliferated like crazy when
exposed to magnetic fields. As well, the exposed cells became increasingly
resistant to the body's immune system. Drs. Phillips and Winters stated that
their observations led them to believe that it was possible that magnetic
fields stimulate the rate of cancer cell growth, or act as a cancer promoter.
In a major
policy shift, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International EMF Project
has endorsed prudent avoidance.
The WHO advised
that decisions on siting power lines should “consider ways to reduce people’s
exposures.” The WHO also recommended that governments and industry should offer
the public “suggestions for safe and low-cost ways to reduce exposures.” The
advice is contained in a fact sheet on extremely low frequency electromagnetic
fields (ELF EMFs) and cancer. The project’s new outlook follows the decision by
an expert panel convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC) to classify ELF EMFs as “possible human carcinogens” (see MWN, J/A01).
IARC, which is based in Lyon, France, is part of the WHO.
In the absence
of U.S. federal guidelines, seven states have issued their own regulations
limiting electric and magnetic fields at the edge of the right of way for power
lines. Other states are moving in this direction, as well, while adopting “prudent avoidance” policies.
Since its
introduction, prudent avoidance has been adopted in
Australia, Sweden, and several U.S. states, including California, Colorado,
Hawaii, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin.
In addition to
leukemia in children, more recent studies have linked EMFs with new diseases.
Loomis and Savitz of the University of North Carolina reported a doubling of
the expected breast cancer rates for women in
electrical trades aged 45-54.
Electric
blankets create an AC magnetic field that penetrates about 6 or 7 inches into
the body. Thus it is not surprising that an epidemiological study has linked
electric blankets with miscarriages and childhood leukemia. This pioneering
work was performed by Dr. Nancy Wertheimer and Ed Leeper, who originally
discovered that magnetic fields were linked to childhood leukemia.
Occupational
Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer- Occupations of patients with pathologically
confirmed prostate cancer were interviewed. Increased risk for prostate cancer was associated with employment as
aircraft fabricator, railway transport worker, metal product fabricator,
structural metal erector, electrical power worker, and water transport worker. * All these occupations use equipment which is electrically run,
and is producing EMFs, many of which are being held right in front of the
abdominal area for use.
Cancer Rates
Among English Electrical Workers- Compared to the normal population, there was
an increase in malignant brain tumors for women, and all leukemia's and tumors
for men.
Other studies
have yielded alarming results. A Johns Hopkins study showed that the incidence
of leukemia among telephone cable workers was 7 times greater than among other
telephone company employees. A subsequent study of 1.5 million past and present
employees of AT&T found that men working as cable splicers and central
office technicians had 1.7 times the risk of dying from leukemia than men
working at jobs with less exposure to EMF. This is startling, considering that
the field these men are exposed to is, on the average, relatively low (4.3
milliGauss). As John Monahan of the Food and Drug Administration explains,
"the effect is real. It is produced by a low-level magnetic field, but we
don't yet know what the important parameters of the field are."
As reported in
the Wall Street Journal, "recent research with human cells and laboratory
animals, plus epidemiological studies, all have suggested that the fields do
have biological effects, and that they may foster a number of medical problems,
including cancer and miscarriage. Leonard Sagan, the radiation expert at the
Electric Power Research Institute, says that the latest experiment is important
because 'this is humans, not rats, who are apparently showing an effect'."
“We believe our
results speak for an association between occupational exposure to magnetic
fields and at least one type of leukemia" conclude the authors, led by Dr.
Gilles Theriault of Montreal's McGill University.
They found that
workers with above-average exposure to magnetic fields were three times more
likely to develop acute myeloid leukemia than
less-exposed workers. Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the most common types of
leukemia among adults.
“My study
convinced me that EMFs probably have a biological effect,” Li said. “We are
entering a new chapter in the field of EMF epidemiology. There is more evidence
that there is an association - the better conducted studies consistently show
an association.
The U.S.
Department of Transportation has been evaluating the health effects from EMF
and Radio-Frequency Radiation (RFR) as associated with transportation systems
over an emerging cross-modal issue. An emerging cross-modal transportation
safety, environmental and health issue of growing national interest is the
existence and nature of potentially adverse health effects from exposure to
electric and magnetic fields (EMFs). Of special concern to the public and
Congress are magnetic fields of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF’s, from 3 to 3000
Hz or 3 KHz), a spectral range including the power grid frequency of 60 Hz, and
its harmonics.
"The
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) committee
charged with evaluating the potential health effects of electromagnetic fields
(EMFs) has completed a draft report that calls for strong action to curtail the
exposure of the U.S. population. "It took us nine years but we finally
reached agreement," committee chair Dr. Ross Adey, of the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Loma Linda, CA, told Microwave News.
A working group
assembled by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has
unanimously concluded that power-frequency magnetic fields are possible human
carcinogens. "There was a unanimous feeling about it," said Dr. Jan
Stolwijk. Dr.Maria Stuchly. Dr. Vincent DelPizzo believes that the cancer
evidence is stronger than do any of the other panelists. He cast the only vote
that there is "sufficient" human evidence for childhood leukemia,
which implies that EMFs are known human carcinogens. "I am sure that
the childhood leukemia finding cannot be attributed to chance, bias or
confounding," he said.
Dr. Rapp also
tells of evidence that EMFs can increase the toxicity of chemicals by allowing
them access to nerve cells. She also reports research which shows that
low-level magnetic fields can affect the blood-brain barrier and allow
particles to enter the brain and disrupt normal function.
"...studies
on cats, rats, and chick brain cells have shown that low frequency
electromagnetic radiation interacts with brain activity and could cause a host
of negative symptoms from heightened stress and depression, slowed reaction
time, and learning disabilities to miscarriages, fetal deformities, and
cancer."
Breast
Cancer - Science News
reported that risk is elevated by 43% for woman who work in high exposure
fields.
In 1989, the
Electric Power Research Institute praised the methodology of a power line study
which linked leukemia, prostate and other cancers in young men with chronic
exposure to magnetic fields.
In November,
1989, the Department of Energy reported that "It has now become generally
accepted that there are indeed. Biological effects due to (magnetic) field
exposure."
Dr. Magda Havas,
a professor in the department of Environment and Resource Studies at Trent
University in Peterborough, specializes in health effects linked to EMFs and
develops programs to reduce exposures, especially in schools. She maintains
that the interpretation of EMF research is both political and highly
controversial. In her own review of the studies, Dr. Havas does find
scientific support linking EMFs to various health effects in three lines of
evidence — epidemiological studies, "in vivo" (animal) studies and
"in vitro" (test tube) studies. Dr. Havas is a strong supporter of
the precautionary principle in the case of EMFs and office equipment — that
it’s "better to be safe than sorry". While avoiding all exposure to
EMFs is impossible in an office, she advocates "prudent
avoidance" — minimizing exposures.
Marion Telling
has given us "the bottom line" -- the next generation will pay the
price. (Wait 'til they try to sell those homes in ten or fifteen years -- after
more people know the facts about EMF.)
In addition to
the long-term health concerns, buying a house with high fields will be an
economic disaster. In a few years, when power line radiation is as well known
as asbestos and radon, a house with high fields will be practically impossible
to sell. Already there are hundreds of lawsuits regarding EMFs and property
devaluation.
When buying a
home, it is important to check for EMFs. Homes "sold...for 30% less"
when exposed to EMFs, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The US National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, (NIEHS), recently decided that
extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields should be regarded as
possible human carcinogens. No doubt there will be an effort by the spin
doctors to make this announcement impossible for the public to understand. Make
no mistake this is a significant announcement from a prominent government
health agency.
We can practice prudent avoidance of EMR as advocated by the Canadian
Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the United States Environmental Protection
Agency. This basically involves identifying the sources of EMR around us and
developing strategies to eliminate or avoid them.
A draft report
prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) generally endorses a 2
mG exposure limit. It would take effect immediately for new day care centers,
schools and playgrounds, as well as for new transmission lines near existing
housing. The report was funded by the EPA. Dr. Joe Elder, EPA's program officer
for the NCRP study in Research Triangle Park, NC, called the committee's report
"the first comprehensive review of the world's literature on EMF health
effects." (1995)
Electromagnetic
Fields (EMFs), the radiation emitted from the flow of electric current, has
been found to be biologically active:
Causes
changes at the cellular level.
Laboratory
rats exposed to elevated EMFs have higher rates of tumors and more aggressive
tumors than unexposed rats.
Melatonin;
EMFs have been found to affect melatonin (a basic human hormone) in animal
studies.
Occupational
studies have strongly linked EMFs to leukemia and also to breast and brain cancer.
Childhood
leukemia rates have been associated with higher exposure to EMFs. Most studies
find elevated risk at four times normal rates.
The National
Council on Radiation Protection NCRP (USA) 1995:
There is a
connection between ELF EMF exposures and disruption of normal biological
processes.
There is a link between EMFs and –
There is a link between EMFs and –
Childhood and adult leukemia and brain cancer.
Child deformities and other reproductive anomalies.
Adverse nervous and hormonal responses causing disease.
Incorrect development of the nervous system.
Cancer and Tumor development.
Gene mutation.
Reduction of the natural defense response of T-Cells.
Changes in psychosexual response.
Melatonin reduction.
The evidence
points to human health hazards in common exposures to EMFs, particularly
magnetic fields exceeding 2mG and electric fields between 10-100 Volts per
metre.
EMF LIMITS
RECOMMENDED BUT NOT ACTED ON
The National Council on Radiation Protection NCRP (USA) 1995
The National Council on Radiation Protection NCRP (USA) 1995
The NCRP recommends a 2mG exposure limit to magnetic EMFs.
Over a three year period, exposures in existing homes schools and
offices should be reduced to 10mG.
After six years, there should be an option to establish a 5mG limit.
After ten years, a 2mG limit should be considered.
Extremely low
frequency (ELF) EMFs easily penetrate tissues and cause virtually no sensory
reactions.
ELF (below 300
Hz) EMFs interact strongly with biological systems, both electrically and
magnetically. The magnetic field aspect of an ELF EMF penetrates the body
without obstruction since the magnetic permeability of tissue equals that of
air.
Dr. Nancy
Wertheimer, a Ph.D. epidemiologist who has been studying EMFs for 20 years, has
been looking at the epidemiological data in a different way -- she is trying to
associate EMF levels with health rather than disease. The level she is coming
up with is a cut off of 1 mG. Russian researchers claim that 1/1000ths of a mG
should be the standard.
Dr. Robert
Becker, an MD who has been studying the effects of EMFs for 20 years, states a
1 mG safety limit in his book Cross Currents.
EXCERPTS FROM
COMMENTS OF PROFESSOR DENIS L. HENSHAW, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, U.K. - THE
BIOINITIATIVE REPORT 2007
LINKS.
Four major
organizations now agree that magnetic fields are a possible carcinogen: The US
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the International
Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), UK NRPB and the California Health Dept
EMF Report all agree magnetic fields are a possible
carcinogen.
There is now
good scientific understanding of the way in which exposure to magnetic fields
may increase the risk of a range of illnesses and further evidence is
continuing to emerge. In particular, a body of studies in human populations has
reported that magnetic fields at even low levels can
disrupt the production in the pineal gland of the important hormone and
natural anti-cancer agent melatonin. This may
explain why a substantial body of studies have shown that exposure to magnetic
fields may lead to increased risk of childhood leukaemia, adult brain cancer,
miscarriage and depression. Our state of knowledge of the health risks of
exposure to EMFs well exceeds that for some chemical carcinogens where strict
regulatory action has been taken.
In July 2001,
the California Health Department issued a major EMF report for public
discussion citing an added risk of miscarriage, childhood leukaemia, adult leukaemia, adult brain cancer and amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS), a form of motor neuron disease, as some of the health risks
associated with exposure to electric and magnetic fields such as those
that radiate from powerlines.
I regard the
statement that IARC (2001) “considered the evidence for excess cancer risks of
all other kinds in adults and children as inadequate” to be outdated. We now
have the benefit of more recently published information, the California Health
Department Report cited above suggesting links between magnetic field exposures
and brain cancer and leukaemia in adults, as well
as the recent reports below, in relation to prostate
cancer and melanoma.
Charles et al.
(2003) studied exposure to electromagnetic fields, polychlorinated biphenyls
and prostate cancer mortality in electric utility workers in five large US
electric utility companies. After adjustment for PCB exposure, race and active
work status within the past two years, workers categorized in the highest 10%
of EMF exposures were twice as likely to die from prostate
cancer as those exposed to EMFs at lower levels; (odds ratio = 2.02; 95%
CI: 1.34 – 3.04).
There is also
evidence of increased risk of certain adult cancers,
especially brain tumours and leukaemia
in relation to magnetic field exposures.
As I have
already indicated, I strongly disagree with the view that the current body of
evidence of adverse health effects associated with magnetic field exposure is
insufficient to derive quantitative restrictions on exposure to EMFs.
Furthermore, the
evidence of adverse health effects continues to increase and is doing so at an
accelerating rate. Although scientists are reticent, even for childhood
leukaemia, to regard the existing associations with ill-health conditions as
causal, I argue here that is extremely difficult to see how future research
will overturn the current body of knowledge. I therefore concur with the view
expressed in the California Health Department Report that it is more likely
than not that magnetic fields cause increased risk of a number of adverse
health outcomes.
There is also
evidence that the oncostatic properties of melatonin are themselves disrupted
by magnetic fields.
As will be
discussed in more detail later, melatonin is
highly protective of oxidative damage to the haemopoietic system. This suggests
that suppression of the production and disruption of the action of melatonin by magnetic fields could act to increase leukaemia risk. I therefore conclude that there is strong
evidence for a causal association between magnetic field exposures and adult leukaemia. Professor Denis L. Henshaw.
Melatonin also is produced by the retina and, in
vastly greater amounts, by the gastrointestinal system. In fact, 400 times more melatonin can be found in the gastrointestinal
system than in the pineal gland or bloodstream….Melatonin can kill
directly many different types of human tumor cells. It is a naturally produced
cytotoxin, which can induce tumor cell death (apoptosis). In instances where
the tumor has already established itself in the body, melatonin has been shown
to inhibit the tumor’s growth rate. Melatonin exhibits
natural oncostatic activity and inhibits cancer cell growth. Eileen M.
Lynch, PhD. Oncology Research Scientist, 2004.
The amount of melatonin produced in the GI
tract by enterochromaffin cells is 400 times
greater than that produced by the pineal gland. Unlike pineal gland
melatonin, GI melatonin is not influenced by light intensity but instead by
food intake…. Enterochromaffin cells release melatonin into nearby blood
vessels of the mucous membrane of the inner lining of the stomach and
intestines. It is through these vessels that melatonin is transported
into the blood stream from the gut. Some of the melatonin, however,
remains in the GI tract to exert a protective action on the GI tissues.
Patrick, Regina. Publication: FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep
Medicine, January 1 2006.
Dr.
Robert Becker, noted for decades of research on the effects of electromagnetic
radiation, has warned: "Even if we survive the chemical and atomic threats
to our existence, there is the strong possibility that increasing
electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our
extinction before we are even aware of them. All life pulsates in time to the
earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms.
These energies are too dangerous to entrust forever to politicians, military
leaders and their lapdog researchers."
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