Subject: Re Telephone "linemen" cancer rates (guru)(Maxey).
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 133329 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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......Response from EMF-L.......
.........Bingo!! Thanks to Ed Maxey for this......
To think that in 1993 our government possessed such information ...
and has yet even to pursue the research line it suggests......!!!
The High O.R. below is stated to be 6.6 (peak exposure and latency
of 10 to 15 years) with a small sample -- still ... that is a
sufficient ALARM for more action to be undertaken!!
Assuming, of course, a "public interest" motivated government -- which
is FAR from what we actually get in America today.....
(Many times, during the past two weeks of the "Florida fiasco" with
the U.S. Presidential Election, have I said to myself: Thank God!!
I don't have a dog in that fight...... I didn't vote for either of
the two "corporate$$$$$$$ owned" candidates..... MY DOG AIN'T IN
THAT FIGHT!!!)
........guru.......
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Telephone "linemen" cancer rates (guru).
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:47:13 -0600
From: Edward Maxey
To: roy@emfguru.com
References: <3A24EF2F.B4E4ABD3@emfguru.com>
Hi Roy,
Here is one such reference.
Ed Maxey
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AUTHOR: Matanoski GM; Elliott EA; Breysse PN; Lynberg MC
ADDRESS: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, School
of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205.
TITLE: Leukemia in telephone linemen.
SOURCE: Am J Epidemiol (3H3), 1993 Mar 15; 137 (6): 609-19
LANGUAGE: English
COUNTRY PUB.: UNITED STATES
ANNOUNCEMENT: 9307
PUB. TYPE: JOURNAL ARTICLE
ABSTRACT: This case-control study examines potential associations
between telephone linework and the occurrence of leukemia
except chronic lymphocytic leukemia in a primarily retired
population of American Telephone and Telegraph Company
(AT&T) workers. Cases died between 1975 and 1980. Exposure
is defined both by job title and, for workers with complete
job histories, by a lifetime exposure score based on
industrial hygiene personal monitoring measurements of line
and nonline jobs. When the time-weighted average mean for
each job is accumulated into a lifetime exposure score,
workers with scores above the median for the population show
an excess of leukemia 2.5 times higher than workers below
the median (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7-8.6). Those
individuals with long duration of employment in jobs with
intermittent peak exposures may be at higher risk of
leukemia than those with a constant exposure level. Analyses
that allow for a latent period suggest the risk is
associated with exposures that occurred 10 or more years
before death. Workers with peak exposure scores above the
median have odds ratios of 2.4 (95% CI 0.7-9.0) and 6.6 (95%
CI 0.7-58) for latent periods of 10 and 15 years,
respectively. The data suggest an increasing risk with
increasing exposure (p for trend = 0.05) when cumulated
scores are based on peak exposure scores. Peak exposures
tended to occur in cable splicing work and in old telephone
switching offices. The numbers in this study are small and
observed differences may be due to chance.
Roy Beavers wrote:
> Hi everybody:
>
> I did not get any replies to my question below -- about the cancer rate
> for "telephone splicers" (linemen)....... I am trying again..... Can
> anyone confirm the statement below; that "splicers" have a significantly
> higher cancer rate???.......guru......
>
> ........From EMF-L........
>
> Guru is forwarding this one to see if we have any confirmation "out there"
> of the statement: "telephone splicers have a cancer rate at seven times the
> national average." .......guru........
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 2 PARTY SYSTEM
> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:12:35 -0400
> From: "James Hrivnak"
> Reply-To: "James Hrivnak"
> To:
> CC:
>
> Your home page is great and in my judgement ON TARGET. I was sent to
> your home page by plhmarsh@webtv.net whose family has health problems
> which could be related to EMF's. I have been to their house on several
> occasions. I have spoken with them at length on the telephone.
>
> To date, all I can say is that federal established standards (which have
> recently been reduced) are not being exceeded. The Swedish and the Leeper
> (Colorado) studies both show that cancer is elevated along transmission
> lines. Both studies showed reduced correlation when individual cancer
> cases were not located within the highest magnetic field zones.
>
> It is a shame that such studies are not being continued. The initial
> correlations are excellent. I spoke with Leeper and asked if ground
> currents, stray voltages, radio fields, etc were considered then or would
> be in future studies? He said "no " to both questions and cut the
> conversation short.
>
> On the issue of stray currents, I planted some grass seed and passed
> currents below one milliampere through the root system. Plant life was
> indeed affected. See the fourth article at:
> http://www.theramp.net/nefta/news.htm
>
> Stray currents have tweaked my curiousity ever since I read that
> telephone splicers, as a profession, have a cancer rate at seven times the
> national average in all categories. A current passing from atom to atom
> in the human body produces tempory ions. Ions are much the same as
> oxidants and radicals. Oxidants are already shown to be related to cancer.
>
> Telephone splicers get frequent small shocks all day long. Most shocks
> are below the perception level.
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