Cell Phones
Cell phones are harmful and cause cancer.
The National Toxicology Program under the National Institutes of Health has completed the largest-ever animal study on cell phone radiation and cancer. The results confirm that cell phone radiation exposure levels within the currently allowable safety limits are the “likely cause” of brain and heart cancers in these animals, according to Dr. John Bucher, Associate Director of the NTP. One in twelve (12) male rats developed either malignant cancer (brain and rare heart tumors) or pre-cancerous lesions that can lead to cancer. Tumors called schwannomas were induced in the heart, in the same kind of cells in the brain that have lead to acoustic neuromas seen in human studies. The NTP says it is important to release these completed findings now given the implications to global health. No cancers occurred in the control group.
Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD of Orebro University says “(T)he animal study confirms our findings in epidemiological studies of an increased risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma among people that use wireless phones, both cell phones and cordless phones (DECT). Acoustic neuroma is a type of Schwannoma, so interestingly this study confirms findings in humans of increased risk for glioma and acoustic neuroma. In 2013 we called for upgrading the risk in humans to Group 1, the agent is carcinogenic to humans. It is now time to re-evaluate both the cancer risk and other potential health effects in humans from radiofrequency radiation and also inform the public.” says Hardell. “This NTP evidence is greatly strengthening the evidence of risk, is sufficient to reclassify cell phone radiation as a known cancer-causing agent, and confirms the inadequacy of existing public safety limits.”
The World Health Organization’s 10-year study of human use of mobile phones concluded there is an increased risk for malignant brain tumors among the heavier mobile phone users, particularly where it is used mostly on one side of the head. The 2010 Interphone mega-study of cancer in humans using mobile phones found higher cancer risk, but at that time there was little animal testing to support the risks identified in humans. Now, this NTP study has shown statistically significant risks with a dose-response relationship to the amount of exposure. It proves that non-ionizing radiation can plausibly cause cancer, not just ionizing radiation like x-rays and puts to rest the traditional scientific argument that cell phone radiation can’t do harm.
Dr. Bucher said the animals’ exposure was about the same as for people who are heavy users of cell phones. He also confirmed that the exposure of 1.5 W/Kg is lower than currently allowed under FCC public safety limits. Testing on rats is standard in predicting human cancers.
The BioInitiative Report (2014) documents nervous system effects in 68% of studies on radiofrequency radiation (144 of 211 studies). This has increased from 63% in 2012 (93 of 150 studies). Genetic effects (damage to DNA) from radiofrequency radiation is reported in 65% (74 of 114 studies); and 83% (49 of 59 studies) of extremely-low frequency studies.
Dr. Christopher Portier, formerly with the NTP commented this is not just an associated finding—but that the relationship between radiation exposure and cancer is clear.
"I would call it a causative study, absolutely. They controlled everything in the study. It’s [the cancer] because of the exposure. This is by far—far and away—the most carefully done cell phone bioassay, a biological assessment. This is a classic study that is done for trying to understand cancers in humans."
Source: Report titled "Cell Phone Radiation Study Confirms Cancer Risk," Orebro University, Sweden. May 31, 2016. Click here.
To read the full report, click here.
Risks to Health and Well-Being From Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices
August 13, 2019
Cell towers should be distanced from homes, daycare centers, schools, and places frequented by pregnant women, men who wish to father healthy children, and the young.
Emerging human evidence is confirming animal evidence of developmental problems with RFR exposure during pregnancy. RFR sources should be avoided and distanced from expectant mothers, as recommended by physicians and scientists.
At the time of writing, a total of 32 countries or governmental bodies within these countries have issued policies and health recommendations concerning exposure to RFR. Three U.S. states have issued advisories to limit exposure to RFR and the Worcester Massachusetts Public Schools voted to post precautionary guidelines on Wi-Fi radiation on its website.
In France, Wi-Fi has been removed from pre-schools and ordered to be shut off in elementary schools when not in use, and children aged 16 years or under are banned from bringing cell phones to school. Because the national test agency found 9 out of 10 phones exceeded permissible radiation limits, France is also recalling several million phones.
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to read the research paper.
Court Rules Cell Phones Can Cause Tumours
Italian businessman Innocente Marcolini, 60, fell ill after using a handset at work for up to six hours every day for 12 years.
Now Italy’s Supreme Court in Rome has blamed his phone. Experts have predicted a flood of legal actions from victims.
Stricken Mr. Marcolini last night warned: “People must be told the risks.”
He was diagnosed with a brain tumour after complaining of head and chin pains.
And yesterday his country’s Supreme Court stated there was a “causal link” between his heavy phone use and the growth.
After the Rome court ruling, Mr. Marcolini said: “This is significant for
very many people. I wanted this problem to become public because many people still do not know the risks."
“I was on the phone, usually the mobile, for at least five or six hours every day at work. I wanted it recognised that there was a link between my illness and the use of mobile and cordless phones."
“Parents need to know their children are at risk of this illness.”
Respected oncologist and professor of environmental mutagenesis Angelo Gino Levis gave evidence for Mr. Marcolini — along with neurosurgeon Dr. Giuseppe Grasso.
They said electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile and cordless phones can damage cells, making tumours more likely. Prof Levis told The Sun: “The court decision is extremely important. It finally officially recognises the link."
“It’ll open not a road but a motorway to legal actions by victims. We’re
considering a class action."
“Tumours due to radiation may not appear for 15 years, so three to five-year studies don’t find them."
“We’ll only realise in years to come the damage phones can cause children.” Mr. Marcolini’s tumour was discovered in the trigeminal nerve — close to where the phone touched his head. It is benign but threatened to kill him as it spread to the carotid artery, the major vessel carrying blood to his brain.
His face was left paralysed and he takes daily morphine for pain.
Alasdair Philips of Powerwatch, which campaigns for more research on mobile use, said: “This is an interesting case and proves the need for more studies.
“People should limit mobile and cordless use until we know more.”
The World Health Organisation urged limits on mobile use last year, calling them a Class B carcinogen. But a spokesman for Britain’s Health Protection Agency said: “The scientific consensus is that mobile phones do not cause cancer.”
International radiation biology expert Michael Repacholi said: “Studies show no evidence of cancer. But if you are worried, use a headset, hands-free or loudspeaker.”
Media lawyer Mark Stephens said the verdict could “open the floodgates” — even though there is no direct obligation on British courts to follow the Italians’ lead.
He said: “It is possible people will begin legal action here, but I think the chances of success are less. I think they’ll join any class action in Italy.”
Source: Article titled "Mobiles Can Give You a Tumour." October 18, 2012. To read the article, click here.
Comments from Magda Havas, Ph.D.
Physicians and scientists have issued statements that biological effects from low-intensity RF radiation are scientifically established and are asking governing bodies in Europe and North America to re-examine our use of wireless technology and reduce existing radio frequency guidelines.
More than 3000 physicians have signed the Freiburger Appeal. These doctors have observed among their patients an increased incidence of disorders including headaches, chronic exhaustion, agitation, sleeplessness, tinnitus, susceptibility to infection, nervous and connective tissue pains that they associate with increased exposure to high frequency microwave radiation from mobile phone base stations and mobile phones (both cell phones and cordless phones).
Below are direct quotes from this document:
Our therapeutic efforts to restore health are becoming increasingly less effective: the unimpeded and continuous penetration of radiation into living and working areas, particularly bedrooms, an essential place for relaxation, regeneration and healing, causes uninterrupted stress and prevents the patient's thorough recovery.
In the face of this disquieting development, we feel obliged to inform the public of our observations . . .
What we experience in the daily reality of our medical practice is anything but hypothetical!
We see the rising number of chronically sick patients also as the result of an irresponsible "safety limits policy", which fails to take the protection of the public from the short- and long-term effects of mobile telephone radiation as its criterium for action. Instead, it submits to the dictates of a technology already long recognized as dangerous. For us, this is the beginning of a very serious development through which the health of many people is being threatened.
Source: Report by Magda Havas, Ph.D. 2007. Analysis of Health and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink Wi-Fi Network. Report to the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco. Click here.
Why You Shouldn't Keep Cell Phones in Your Bras or Pants Pockets
1. Breast cancer and smartphones are linked
Several studies are being done currently on this topic, and researchers suspect that breast cancer and smartphones are linked. This link is even stronger in women who carry their smartphones in their bras.
Note: They have found rectangular tumors -- shaped like cell phones -- in the breasts of women who carry their cell phones in their bras.
2. Linked with low sperm count
Researchers are starting to believe that the radiation from smartphones has various side effects on our bodies. One of the major side effects includes reduction in sperm production in human beings. The main reason is that most men carry their smartphones in their pants pockets, thus the testes are subjected to higher levels of radiation, leading to lower sperm count.
3. Linked With Depression
There is no doubt that many people use their smartphones at night before sleep, which disrupts the normal sleeping pattern, leading to horde of mental problems. Also, depression and confusion are major side effects of sleep deprivation.
4. Linked with sleep disorders
As stated earlier, smartphones have been found to disrupt the normal sleeping pattern, and there is a lot of evidence backing up this claim. This will not only lead to sleep deprivation, leaving your tired, depressed and confused the next morning, but can also cause disorders like insomnia.
Source: Article by Anizpk. May 22, 2016. click here.
Cell phones are harmful to adults and children
List of 900 Research Papers on EMF/RF Radiation
Federal regulations protect the public only from the thermal (i.e., heating) risk due to short-term exposure to high intensity, cell tower radiation. The Federal regulations ignore the thousands of studies that find harmful bio-effects from long-term exposure to non-thermal levels of radiation.
Source: Dr. Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D. Detailed list of more than 900 scientific research papers on radiofrequency and electromagnetic radiation. Click here.
Smartphone Radiation: iPhones Emitting Double Reported Levels
A recent investigation has reignited debate over the safety of cell and smartphones. It's also spurred class-action lawsuits and has activists calling on federal regulators to reassess the limits of radiation allowed to seep out from radio-emitting mobile devices that are now a part of daily modern life.
"Radiofrequency radiation exposure from the iPhone 7 — one of the most popular smartphones ever sold — measured over the legal safety limit and more than double what Apple reported to federal regulators from its own testing," the Tribune reported.
They found most of the phones exceeded the legal limit set by the FCC of 1.6 watts per kilogram averaged over 1 gram of tissue.
Radiofrequency radiation exposure from the iPhone 7 — one of the most popular smartphones ever sold — measured over the legal safety limit and more than double what Apple reported to federal regulators from its own testing.
Ellie Marks, executive director of the nonprofit California Brain Tumor Association, is "not at all surprised by" the Tribune's findings and is happy to see class-action lawsuits being filed following its publication.
"This cannot be left to FCC or FDA to investigate," Marks told Healthline. "The collusion and corruption between the FDA, FCC and telecom is out of control."
Marks and other advocates who have wanted regulations changed argue the FCC is too beholden to private interests to address the issue.
"The industry, FDA and FCC keep repeating the mantra that there is no evidence of harm. That is a blatant lie, but they need to do this for liability reasons," Marks said. "There is extensive research proving cell phone radiation is causing DNA damage and cancer — not just brain, but salivary gland, thyroid, breast, damage to fetuses, damage to sperm, miscarriages, bone cancer and more."
To be safe, experts suggest the following practices to limit unnecessary exposure to radiation from mobile devices:
- Unplug from your usual device usage as much as possible.
- Don't keep your phone next to your body, such as in a pocket.
- Use speakerphone or a headset when making calls.
- Don't sleep next to your phone or other devices.
- Keep the phone on airplane mode (or turn it off) when you're not using it.
To read the article, click here.
Apple’s iPhone: Widespread deception over the real SAR levels
The tests confirm, without possible doubt, that the distance allowed by international regulations to ensure the safety of users is completely inadequate. For 30 years, the distance used to carry out certifications and controls has been completely inappropriate in relation to our uses.
The results obtained for the iPhone 7 raise many questions. During the control carried out by ANFR in May 2016, the latter had a SAR level of 1.34 W/kg for 10 gr. However, the 4 iPhones tested by the Chicago Tribune all have much higher than normal SAR levels for both standard and modified tests. Moreover, the tests carried out at a distance of 2mm show even greater deviations than those revealed by ANFR.
We are faced with repeated evidence of deception on the part of Apple.
To read the article, click here.
"Something is going awry with the decision-making bodies in our government"
According to Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health, at the University of California at Berkeley.
“Something is going awry within the decision-making bodies in our government,” he said. “Nobody in power really wants to know the cost of unleashing this technology upon the public and upon the environment as well.”
Microwave Emissions From Cell Phones Exceed Safety Limits in Europe and the US When Touching the Body
The National Agency ANFR of France recently released the cell phone SAR test data for 450 cell phones that measure 10-g SARs reducing by 10%–30% for each millimeter distal placement from the planar body phantom. Their data corroborate our findings that most cell phones will exceed the safety guidelines when held against the body by factors of 1.6–3.7 times for the European/ICNIRP standard or by factors as high as 11 if 1-g SAR values were to be measured as required by the U.S. FCC.
Cell phones are often used held against the ear canal or against the body in shirt or pant pockets and are therefore very close to the body, the cell phone manufacturers in the last 5-10 years have started to recommend that they be held 5, 10, or 15 up to 25 millimeters from the body. We assume this additional spacing between the cell phone and the body was recommended because of our past publications that these wireless devices will not pass the safety standards when held against the body on account of the very rapidly diminishing EM fields close to radiating antennas [4]–[7], [10]. In spite of the manufacturer recommendations, we find it hard to believe that one can carry out a conversation when the telephone is held up to 25 millimeters away from the ear canal particularly in crowded noisy environments or that these recommended distances can be maintained consistently under mobile conditions without use of a spacer to maintain the suggested distances of 5 to 25 millimeters.
To read the research paper, click here.
Low Levels of Radiation such as Wi-Fi, Smart Meters and Cell Phones Cause the Blood Brain Barrier to Leak
Neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Leif Salford has conducted many studies on radio frequency radiation and its effects on the brain. Dr. Salford called the potential implications of some of his research "terrifying." Some of the most concerning conclusions result from the fact that the weakest exposure levels to wireless radiation caused the greatest effect in causing the blood brain barrier to leak.
Since he began his line of research in 1988, Dr. Leif Salford and his colleagues at Lund University Hospital in Sweden has exposed over 1,600 experimental animals to low-level radiation. Their results were consistent and worrisome: radiation, including that from cell phones, caused the blood-brain barrier--the brain's first line of defense against infections and toxic chemicals--to leak.
Researchers in 13 other laboratories in 6 different countries had reported the same effect, but no one had proven whether it would lead to any damage in the long term. In a study published June 2003 in Environmental Health Perspectives, Salford's team repeated the experiment on 32 additional animals, but this time waited eight weeks before sacrificing them and examining their brains. In those animals that had been exposed to a cell phone, up to two percent of the neurons in all areas of the brain were shrunken and degenerated.
Salford, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at his institution, called the potential implications "terrifying."
"We have good reason to believe," he said, "that what happens in rats' brains also happens in humans."
Referring to today's teenagers, the study's authors wrote that "a whole generation of users may suffer negative effects, perhaps as early as in middle age."
In May of 2011, the World Health Organization official recognized that wireless radiation such as emitted by "smart meters" is a possible carcinogen.
After decades of corporately-funded, biased research being held up as "industry-standard," there are hundreds of independent peer-reviewed scientific studies now showing there is a clear health hazard with technology emitting wireless radiation in the range that "smart meters" do.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people with a "smart meter" installed, have contracted illness, insomnia, rashes, headaches, and worse. And many have been forced to leave their homes entirely, due to health effects. What's more, in apartment buildings where 30+ "smart meters" are installed in a single electrical room, the dangers are even higher.
Source: Article titled "Neurosurgeon Shows How Low Levels of Radiation Such As Wi-Fi, Smart Meters And Cell Phones Cause The Blood Brain Barrier To Leak," September 18, 2012. To read the article, click here.
Cell Phones: Interference with Pacemakers and Other Medical Devices
Radiofrequency energy (RF) from cell phones can interact with some electronic devices. This type of interference is called electromagnetic interference (EMI). For this reason, FDA helped develop a detailed test method to measure EMI of implanted cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators from cell phones.
Precautions for pacemaker wearers
If EMI were to occur, it could affect a pacemaker in one of three ways:
- Stopping the pacemaker from delivering the stimulating pulses that regulate the heart's rhythm
- Causing the pacemaker to deliver the pulses irregularly
- Causing the pacemaker to ignore the heart's own rhythm and deliver pulses at a fixed rate
People with pacemakers may want to take some simple precautions to be sure that their cell phones don't cause a problem.
- Hold the phone to the ear opposite the side of the body where the pacemaker is implanted to add some extra distance between the pacemaker and the phone
- Avoid placing a turned-on phone next to the pacemaker implant (e.g. don’t carry the phone in a shirt or jacket pocket directly over the pacemaker)
To read the FDA article, click here.