Subject: (Lundquist) An update on what I've been doing (fwd)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 035204 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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.......Here is a warm letter from Marge -- a wonderfully dedicated
and wise lady......Guru has "dropped in" one comment in her text....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
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Date: 22 Mar 99 22:09:02 MST
From: MARJORIE LUNDQUIST
To: Roy Beavers
Cc: Deb Carney
Subject: An update on what I've been doing
Roy, I thought people might be interested in knowing what I've been doing
lately, as some of my activities may be of interest to them.
My biggest project, which is on-going, is assembling a list of citations to
the published literature on RF/MW health effects, exposure standards,
nonthermal vs. thermal effects, & a very little bit about mechanisms. I'm
doing it in chronological order, so as to trace the historical aspect; so far
as I am aware, this is unique. (It might be helpful to attorneys, for
example.) This goes back into the 1920s; it is all English-language, though
I've noticed a lot of foreign-language literature of interest lately, and am
exploring the possibility of getting some translated into English. (I have
consciously tried to avoid including literature on therapeutic applications of
EMF, however.)
I have learned some unexpected things in the process of assembling this. For
example, a little over two decades ago, I discovered an attempt had been made
by Leonard R. Solon, a health physicist with New York City, to lower that
city's standard for exposure to microwave radiation! It didn't get the
necessary beaurocratic approvals, so his effort failed. But if it HAD
succeeded, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 would have had trouble getting
passed in its present form! And the electrosensitive residents of New York
City who fled at the end of 1997, becoming "microwave refugees", might not
have been driven out of their homes the way they were!
I was amazed to find Dr. Solon's papers, because I had had no idea that any
health professional in the USA had ever seriously challenged the exposure
standard developed by the electrical engineers in 1966 (ANSI C95). What is
more, I have tracked down Dr. Solon, who is now retired but is still
interested in this issue, and am in communication with him. Just today I
mailed him a copy of the report of the Colorado study around Lookout Mountain.
In a letter I received from him this past weekend, he made a suggestion I
think everyone in the group will perceive the humor of. He suggested that
maybe Lookout Mountain should now be called "Lookout!" Mountain, since the
residents there need to watch out for radiation. (Deb, take note!)
Again in today's mail, I got a report of a man in western New York state who
just died of cancer of the ear; he had used a cellular phone for several years
before the diagnosis, and developed cancer in the ear on the same side of his
head where he used the cellular phone. His earliest symptom was earache.
Because he had been warned by a neighbor about a cancer hazard associated with
cellular phone use, he demanded immediate attention from his doctor for his
earache (his doctor was busy, and at first tried to put him off for 3 months,
on the grounds that his was a minor problem). He was persistent, his doctor
discovered cancer and operated, and he enjoyed an additional 3 years of life
which he would not have had, if he had done what his doctor first told him (he
finally died of his cancer early in February this year). I want to try to get
a report on him published in a medical journal (such as JAMA) so I have begun
the process of getting information from the surviving members of his family,
also their permission for his doctor to discuss his case with me.
And in the back of my mind is this question: if his cancer was really related
to his cellular phone use, why did he develop cancer of the ear and not a
brain cancer? This question needs an answer.
My letter to the editor of EPIDEMIOLOGY should be published on schedule in the
May 1999 issue; I returned the proofs on time. I think it will be titled
"Need for Categorization of Exposure in Studies of Cellular Phone Users".
I've sent a copy of the Colorado study to the EPA and am about to send one to
the Center for Devices and Radiological Health in the FDA. It is not of
direct interest to this group, since it regulates medical and other small
devices. But I think personnel there will be interested, all the same; they
may be aware that the European Union recently voted to require warning labels
on cellular telephones, for example.
[......Marge, we are on top of this (the EU Parliament action on ALL EMF
hazards. It is grand! But -- it is still "in process." Not yet
finally approved......guru......]
I submitted abstracts to the Bioelectromagnetics Society for its June 1999
meeting; two of the four I submitted were accepted. I need to get busy and
prepare what I will present there. (I also submitted two abstracts to
ElectroMed99, a symposium on nonthermal medical effects to be held next month
in Norfolk, VA; but they were rejected.)
This is not an exhaustive report, but some members of the group may be
interested in some of the things I have done/learned. -- Marjorie
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Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI 53211-0831
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