Subject:  Re Telephone "linemen" cancer rates (guru)(Fist).
Date:     Thu, 30 Nov 2000 084526 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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.......Response from EMF-L.......

Does anyone else in Australia have info on this?.........guru.......

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Subject: Re: Telephone "linemen" cancer rates (guru)...
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:52:44 +1100
From: Stewart Fist 
Reply-To: fist@ozemail.com.au
Organization: Independent writer and columnist
To: roy@emfguru.com
References: <3A24F001.8DC22893@emfguru.com>

On the question of splicer cancer rates.

Dr Fred Hollows (a famous Australian medico, now deceased) did a study
on linesmen at Telstra about twenty years ago and found higher rates.  I
don't have the details.

There was quite a scandal associated with this study because Telstra
maintained that he shouldn't have published the findings. I can't
remember all the details unfortunately, and it is unlikely that Telstra
would provide them.

Some other Australian reader may know a source.

-- 
Stewart Fist - writer and columnist
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