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Wireless Phones and Your Health

Will you or your loved ones volunteer for the largest uncontrolled experiment in the history of the world?

Digital wireless communications (Cell phones, PCS) is growing explosively. Yet, based on scientific evidence there is reason to believe that wireless radiations are harmful to health.

Dr. George Carlo heads the Wireless Technology Research group sponsored by the wireless industry. He stated that current studies contradict industry claims of safety. Specifically:

1) A type of brain cancer that grows from the outside of the brain inward was almost 3 times more probable among heavy cellular phone users than among non-users, 2) A nonmalignant tumor of the auditory nerve was significantly more probable in cell phone users than in the population at large, and 3) Damaged chromosomes were found to be significantly more probable in heavy cell phone users than in the general population.

A study of wireless phone users in Sweden has shown that people who use a wireless phone in the right hand are at risk for brain tumors on the right side of the head in the same area that the phone irradiates the head. The opposite is true for left handed users.

Even the FDA, normally no friend of the common man, has recently stated that available science does not deem wireless phone radiation harmful, but neither does science prove it safe. Conclusions seems to depend on what science is acknowledged as credible. There are two studies of interest:

Renacholi Study (1996)
The study was done at Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia and sponsored by and suppressed for a year by the cell phone company Telstra. Two hundred matched mice were studied in groups of one hundred. One group was exposed to pulsed digital radiation from a handset typical power levels for two half-hour periods each day. The radiation source was about 2 feet from the mice. Radiation is even greater when the phone is against the human ear.

A significant increase in B-cell lymphomas was evident early in the experiment. Such B-cell lymphomas (rather than the normal T-cell type) are implicated in roughly 85 percent of human cancers. Incidence of cancer continued to rise over 18 months.

This was a double-blind experiment, using absolutely identical equipment and conditions for two groups of mice. The exposed mice had 2.4 times the tumor rate of the unexposed mice. This was above the 1% confidence level acknowledged by scientists as being “highly significant”.

And finally, in the Repacholi Study the radiation source was about two feet away from the mice. Therefore, this study also raises a question about the safety of people nearby who are exposed to the radiation without their consent. This a passive radiation exposure issue similar to the passive tobacco smoke exposure issue.

University of Lund Study (1999)
Another study from Sweden suggests that wireless phone radiation may make it easier for poisons to enter the brain from the blood through the blood-brain barrier.

The blood-brain barrier is a thin layer of cells between the blood vessels of the brain and the actual brain tissue. Oxygen and nutrients are allowed into the brain by the barrier, while carbon dioxide and waste products are allowed out. It is well known that the barrier inhibits some medicines from entering brain tissue. Evidence suggests that radiation from a pulsed digital phone opens this safety barrier, allowing the brain to be invaded by poisonous substances contained in blood.

The research team at Lund found that the protein albumen leaked through the barrier into the brain of rats that have been exposed to radiation similar to those produced by a wireless phone. Albumen is naturally in blood, but not found in the brain. Since albumen got into the brain, there is reason to predict that other molecules of smaller or equal size can as well.

It is impossible to tell with certainty that the leakage found by the Lund research team means wireless telephones damage the human brain. However, the researchers emphasize they want the results to be taken seriously because the blood-brain barrier of humans and rats are similar in function. If proteins normally found in the blood get into the brain they can cause auto immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Damaged nerve cells could also lead to dementia, premature aging, and Parkinson’s disease. Additionally, inflamed brain cells can be linked indirectly to Alzheimer’s disease.

Medication that normally would not be able to penetrate the blood-brain-barrier could, damaging the brain. The unexplained symptoms of American soldiers in the Kuwait war are suspected of being linked to a medication they took. The microwaves surrounding soldiers in high-tech warfare may have opened the blood-brain-barrier. The possibility is now being investigated by the US Air Force in cooperation with the Lund scientists.

Hardell (2005) and Hepworth Studies (2006)
Within the brain and spinal cord there are nerve cells and also cells that support and protect the nerve cells. The supporting cells are called glial cells. A tumor of these cells is known as a glioma. An astrocytoma is the most common type of glioma and develops from a type of star-shaped cell called an astrocyte.

Hardell et al., Environmental Research 12 July 2005 reported for wireless phone use on the same side of the head, the risk of high-grade astrocytoma was 4.2, 3.2 and 4.0 for analog and digital cellphone and cordless phone use, respectively.

Hepworth et al., BMJ 19 January 2006. The study reports a 60% increased risk of glioma for regular cellphone use of 10 years or more on the same side of the head as the location of the tumor. Another study has found similar results, though with much higher risk of glioma. See EMFacts article for more comments.

Will you be part of this great and noble experiment or will you avoid or perhaps fight wireless phone use? What is the price of convenience? Make copies of this article and give it to people you care about.

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