Subject:  "Anecdotal" -- 3 times, Re cordless (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 11 May 1998 202157 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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This one clearly merits some attention!!!  I wonder if the "power"
switch really matters in these cases ... where "thermal effect"
is more likely culprit (vis-a-vis EMF effect, that is)?????
{guru}

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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:04:28 +1000
From: Peter French 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: cordless (fwd)

Dear Roy,
This is an interesting question. I had a phone call this week from a man
inquiring re cordless phones and health effects. Thsi was triggered by the
death of his mother from a large cell lymphoma where the primary lesion was
in the neck. She was a heavy user of a cordless phone for 2-3 years (up to
4 hours per day). He had said to her that he thought that she was using it
too much. Her reply was "Look at XXX (25 y.o. woman friend) - she uses her
cordless phone much more than I do and she's not suffereing any problems".
Well, after the death of his mother, the 25 y.o. has come down with
lymphoma. And he had heard about a third case of lymphoma in asimilar heavy
cordless user.
He asked me what I thought, and when I asked him about the power output of
the phone he said taht there was a switch on it which was labelled 2W and
4W, the higher output being for when the phone was 100 m from the station.
It is actually quite hard to get information about the characteristics of
these phones, so I have told him that I will investigate and get back to
him.
Although this is purely anecdotal and not verified, perhaps someone should
keep a register of such reports foir teh future?
Regards,
Peter French





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