Subject: EMF-L NCI Study.... (fwd)
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 061818 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <emf-l@mail.llion.org>
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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:10:16 GMT
From: Alasdair Philips
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: EMF-L NCI Study....
This went out to all main-line UK media on 2nd July
CH4 7pm News (& possibly ITN News at 10) may run a story today (3rd)
Parts of it are from Cathy's EMF-L piece, which was most timely and helpful.
Please note that her piece contained a serious error in that Dr Campion said
fields under power lines were typically 3 to 10 microtesla (not Mg as in
Cathy's piece!). In fact the whole paper uses microtesla and somebody must
have wrongly converted them.
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Powerwatch Network
2 Tower Road, Sutton, Ely, Cambs., CB6 2QA
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/ email: aphilips@gn.apc.org
Urgent Press Release - 2nd July 1997
Re:
RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS AND ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA IN
CHILDREN
to be published on July 3rd in New England Journal of Medicine
This study will be announced as "negative" and calling for the end to funded
EMF research
this is NOT correct !!!
It actually acknowledges in no less than four places, a statistically
significant increase in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in children
exposed to powerline magnetic fields in excess of 3milliGauss (300 nanotesla
or 0.3 microtesla) finding almost twice (1.79) times the number of expected
cases.
This is a CONFIRMATION of many previous studies which have shown a similar
level of association between childhood leukaemia and magnetic fields from
electricity.
It is common to find levels above this near to power-lines, electricity
substations and in many city houses. At levels between 0.4 and 0.5
microtesla (still over 3000 times lower that official UK NRPB Guidance of
1600uT ) the study found 3.28 times the number of expected cases.
The Linet study, billed by the U.S. National Cancer Institute as "The most
comprehensive study ever done on this much-debated topic", falls far short
of its billing as the study does not approach the thoroughness of the
earlier Swedish studies, and INCREDIBILY for a modern study it only measured
MAGNETIC fields and did NOT include ELECTRIC fields which are being
increasingly implicated in cancer development and many other adverse health
conditions. Both magnetic and electric fields are being measured in the
landmark UK Childhood Cancer Study due out early next year, as UK
researchers understand the potential importance of electric fields. In a
1996 Canadian study on adults which took BOTH fields into account, the risk
rose from 1.6 (magnetic fields only, and similar to the 1.79 in this study)
to 11.2 (both magnetic and ELECTRIC fields considered) - it is likely to be
a similar increase for children.
It is accompanied by an Editorial authored by Edward W.Campion, M.D., which
contains mis-calculations and mis-statements and, incredibly, includes a
call to halt EMF research. The Linet study addresses chronic twenty-four
hour a day involuntary magnetic field exposure, not the two minute a day
voluntary exposure that it may take Dr. Campion "to shave with his electric
razor". There is clearly a hidden agenda at work here.
The National Cancer Institute is holding a background briefing TODAY July
2nd on the Linet study from 10-11am (4-6pm ? BST) at the Natcher Building
Conference Center, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD. For their further
information call the NCI press office on USA (301) 496-6641. The results
were:
Unmatched Matched
cases contr. OR 95%CI cases contr. OR 95%CI
<0.065uT 267 281 1.00 206 215 1.00
0.65-0.099 123 117 1.10 92 98 0.96
0.0-0.199 151 143 1.10 107 106 1.15
=>0.2 83 70 1.24 58 44 1.53
0.2-0.299 38 42 0.92 29 26 1.31
0.3-0.399 22 17 1.39 14 11 1.46
0.4-0.499 14 5 3.28 10 2 6.41
=>0.5 9 6 1.41 5 5 1.01
The UK National Radiological Protection Board telephone number is: 01235 831
600
The new Linet study is sure to be headline material in the next few days as
industry and government grab hold of NCI's spin and try to call the issue
"dead". It is important to remind ourselves that the only thing dead about
this issue are the children who lived too close to electricity.
Powerwatch runs a public information service on power-frequency and
microwave EMF issues (including cellular phone hazards) in an attempt to
provide all sides of the story in this manipulated area of research and
public policy.
For our further information call:
(details removed) (UK) 01353 778814
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Best regards to all of you
Alasdair Philips
NCI details:
Alasdair Philips (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html