Subject: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (Kramer)..
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 090115 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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The absence (below) of any mention that EMF may be a/the factor in
causing, "the type [of cancer] rising so dramatically , not just here but
in most industrialized countries," ... is too typical of a scientific/
medical community that does not want to recognize "the Emperor who
is wearing no clothes" -- EMF/EMR......!!
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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Missed opportunity...
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:23:27 -0600
From: "M. David Kramer"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Alzheimer's related EMF bioeffect?? (guru)(Benson)..
Roy,
The first article presented below may be relevant. Although
the first paragraph describes a lump on the jaw, there is no
mention that the rise may be due to the use of cellular
phones.
I have taken the liberty to include the second article for a
few reasons. It may account for the recent antenna tower
riot in Israel and it addresses meningiomas, a type of brain
tumor that was mentioned by the FDA in their May, 1997
letter to the US House of Representatives addressing
wireless communication health effects, but has not been
mentioned since. Additionally, one can easily substitute
'industry' for medical' and 'profits' for 'a relatively
innocuous condition' in the next to the last paragraph and
apply it to our mutual efforts.
M. David Kramer
Aegis Corporation
http://www.goaegis.com
Scientists struggle to unravel a baffling rise in lymphoma
Associated Press
February 15, 2000
WASHINGTON - It started with flu-like symptoms that Michael
Locher just couldn't shake. Then an egg-shaped lump
ballooned on his jaw, and his doctor knew - Locher was the
latest victim in the nation's baffling rise in lymphoma.
Even as many other types of cancer have leveled off or even
dropped, this mysterious immune-system cancer has been
making a quiet but astounding rise; rates have nearly
doubled since the 1970s.
Is diet to blame? Pesticides? Air pollution? Viruses?
Obesity? Nobody knows.
But there is good news: Doctors are testing highly promising
new immunotherapies for the worst type, non-Hodgkins
lymphoma. They include a potent - but still experimental -
"monoclonal antibody" called Bexxar that carries radiation
straight to cancer cells to zap them without hurting healthy
tissue.
"This is just amazing," said Locher, a New York City Transit
Authority engineer whose tumors vanished last fall after he
took Bexxar in a medical experiment.
"The results have looked very, very promising," says Dr.
Wyndham Wilson of the National Cancer Institute. "What's
even more exciting is that there are now a whole number of
different monoclonal antibodies coming forward" to attack
numerous varieties of lymphoma.
Plus, NCI scientists are developing experimental vaccines
customized to patients' cancers in hopes of preventing
hidden lymphoma cells from staging a comeback after
chemotherapy.
Some 62,300 Americans will be diagnosed this year with
lymphoma. More than 27,000 will die this year.
It's a cancer that doesn't make many headlines - lung,
prostate, breast and colon cancer strike more often. Yet
some 450,000 Americans are estimated to already be living
with lymphoma. Doctors can offer no advice on preventing
lymphoma and have no early-detection tests.
About 7,400 of the new cases will be the often curable
Hodgkin's disease.
The rest are non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a catchall term that
encompasses some 30 cancer subtypes whose prognosis and
treatment all differ. Some are so slow-growing that patients
survive many years, cycling between therapy and remission
and yet more therapy.
Others are highly aggressive and rapidly fatal. Still others
fall in between.
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is the type rising so dramatically,
not just here but in most industrialized countries.
The AIDS virus caused some of the increase. Lymphoma is much
more common in people with weakened immune systems.
The list of other suspects is long but unproven: herbicides,
pesticides, benzene-polluted air, the Epstein-Barr virus.
One recent study suggests being overweight increases risk. A
new theory that sunburns lower immune function has
scientists considering a lymphoma link.
Brain tumors linked to 1950s scalp radiation treatments
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters Health) -- The use of head
irradiation to treat fungal scalp infections in Israeli
immigrants in the 1950s has been linked to an increase in
meningiomas, a type of benign tumor that can cause bone
erosion and compress brain tissue, researchers report.
Between 1948 and 1960, about 20,000 Israeli individuals --
mostly children -- received head radiation treatment for
tinea capitis, a fungal infection of the scalp that can
cause hair loss, according to Dr. Siegal Sadetzki and
colleagues from the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel
Hashomer, Israel. Most were recent immigrants from North
Africa or the Middle East.
To investigate the impact of this mass irradiation, the team
looked at the incidence of benign meningioma in Israeli
immigrants over the past 40 years.
>From the 1980s onward, there was a marked increase in the
tumors among immigrants aged 40 to 49 years old, who would
have been aged 5 to 14 in the 1950s.
Those Israelis born in North Africa between 1940 and 1954
were 4 to 5 times as likely to develop a benign meningioma
as people born between 1930 and 1939, before radiation was
commonly used.
Israelis born in the Middle East between 1940 and 1954 had
twice the risk of the brain tumors while European-American
immigrants had nearly the same risk as those born between
1930 and 1939.
"This observation is in line with the fact that a larger
proportion of North African-born immigrants were irradiated,
as compared with Middle Eastern born," Sadetzki and
colleagues note. Their findings are published in the
February 1st issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
The findings "illustrate vividly how a strong medical
intervention (radiation), for a relatively innocuous
condition (tinea capitis), led to a dramatic change in the
occurrence of a very serious disease (meningioma),"
according to the report.
It is unusual for a link between an illness and a medical
treatment to be "so strong and widespread that its effect is
seen clearly in national incidence rates," Sadetzki told
Reuters Health. SOURCE: American Journal of Epidemiology
2000;151:266-272.
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com