Subject:  Re "Anecdotal" -- 3 times, Re cordless (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 13 May 1998 141606 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:34:30 -0700
From: "Sherry A. &/or Samuel Milham, Jr." 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: "Anecdotal" -- 3 times, Re: cordless (fwd)

Dear Roy,
	You might suggest to Peter French, that if the population which
generated the three "anecdotal" cordless-telephone related lymphomas is
covered by a tumor registry, it should not be difficult for the registry
people to see whether there has been a recent lymphoma increase, and
with a little further study, to see whether it is related to cordless
telephone usage. 




Roy L. Beavers wrote:
> 
> 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}
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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