Subject: Drs. Mild & Wilson Disagree With Media Reports on NCI Study
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 122401 -0500 (CDT)
From: Emrall@aol.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <emf-l@mail.llion.org>
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July 16, 1997
In a press statement released yesterday at the World Conference on
Breast Cancer, Kjell Hansson Mild, Ph.D., Bary W. Wilson Ph.D and Cindy Sage
address the new Linet EMF/leukemia study published in the New England
Journal
of Medicine advising "On the basis of this new study, some scientists and
some news media organizations, including the major networks, have repeated
the questionable claim that the link between EMF exposure and cancer risk is
no longer an issue, and that further research is unnecessary."
The press release rebuts such reckless reporting advising "Such
statements, based on a single study are disturbing. More disturbing still,
is the fact that the data presented in the Linet study do not support the
assertion that no link exists. Even a cursory review of the main data set
shows a 53% increase in leukemia incidence at magnetic field exposure levels
above 2mG; a 72% increase (which is statistically significant) above 3mG,
and
a more than 600% increase at exposures of between 4 and 5 mG."
Dr. Bary Wilson, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the
co-author of a new book on EMF and breast cancer, as well as several other
speakers at the World Conference on Breast Cancer, including Dr. Kjell
Hansson Mild of the National Institute of Working Life in Sweden, have
stated
that a study which is apparently positive and limited only to leukemia,
should not be used to discount a possible link between EMF and cancer in its
entirety.
It is pleasing to see that Drs. Mild and Wilson have taken a firm
position
on the horrific spin the National Cancer Institute and the media have put on
this new study. Dr. Mild in particular is to be congratulated for his
continuing vigilence in this debate. As many of you may recall, last
Halloween when the National Academy of Science, National Research Council
(NRC) report was released, and the headlines screamed "No Link Between EMF
and Cancer", it was Dr. Mild who stood up to the NRC and advised that their
report was purposly slanted to downplay harmful effects of EMFs.
I will be happy to fax or mail the one page Mild/Wilson/Sage press
release
to anyone who would like to read it. Just forward your fax number or
physical mailing address to me at emrall@aol.com
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Cathy Bergman
The EMR Alliance
410 West 53rd Street, Suite 105
New York, NY 10019
(212) 554-4073 phone
(212) 977-5541 fax
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