Subject:  Radar & cancer, suggesting exposure standards (Segerback).
Date:     Sat, 26 Aug 2000 153628 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Hi everybody:

Read this, then turn again to the standards suggested by the
Salzburg resolution......  The Salzburg scientists were not
so far off......!!  

Then......  The next message will be from a retired serviceman 
(Warrant Officer) with a record of radar/RF exposure.....  
An unhappy tale.....

Cheerio......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

It is better to light a single candle
    than to curse the darkness..

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: radar & cancer
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 16:32:03 +0200
From: Per SegerbSck 
To: "Roy Beavers" 

All,
Interesting new report from Israel about the connection:
Microwave exposure - Cancer.
The last line reads:

"Calculations derived from a linear model of dose-response suggest the need
to prevent exposures in the range of 10-100 muw/cm(2)."
This translates to 0.1W/m2 - 1.0W/m2
The current limit for the general public in Sweden is 4.5W/m2 and 9W/m2 (for
900MHz and 1800MHz, respectively).

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      Int J Occup Environ Health 2000 Jul;6(3):187-193


Cancer in Radar Technicians Exposed to Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation:
Sentinel Episodes.

Richter E, Berman T, Ben-Michael E, Laster R, Westin JB

Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah
Medical School, Jerusalem POB 12272, Israel; telephone: 972-2-6758148; fax:
972-2-6784010; e-mail: 

[Record supplied by publisher]

Controversy exists concerning the health risks from exposures to
radiofrequency/microwave irradiation (RF/MW). The authors report
exposure-effect relationships in sentinel patients and their co-workers, who
were technicians with high levels of exposure to RF/MW radiation.
Information about exposures of patients with sentinel tumors was obtained
from interviews, medical records, and technical sources. One patient was a
member of a cohort of 25 workers with six tumors. The authors estimated
relative risks for cancer in this group and latency periods for a larger
group of self-reported individuals. Index patients with melanoma of the eye,
testicular cancer, nasopharyngioma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and breast
cancer were in the 20-37-year age group. Information about work conditions
suggested prolonged exposures to high levels of RF/MW radiation that
produced risks for the entire body. Clusters involved many different types
of tumors. Latency periods were extremely brief in index patients and a
larger self-reported group. The findings suggest that young persons exposed
to high levels of RF/MW radiation for long periods in settings where
preventive measures were lax were at increased risk for cancer. Very short
latency periods suggest high risks from high-level exposures. Calculations
derived from a linear model of dose-response suggest the need to prevent
exposures in the range of 10-100 muw/cm(2).

PMID: 10926722


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