Subject: EMF Links to Leukemia, the Toronto study (Evans) (Curry)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 090229 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:44:48 -0500
From: "Bill P. Curry"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: EMF Links to Leukemia, the Toronto study (Evans)...
Roy,
My wife Gretchen (retired Medical Sociologist) is a co-organizer of a
graduate course on Child Health that will likely be given next year at a
university in Chicago. It would be a great help to her (and a great favor to
me) if anyone who knows about published research articles on EMF effects on
children's health, such as the reference cited here in the U. of Toronto News
Magazine, and would inform us by Email of the journal citation. We are
interested in all EMF effects - from power line ELF frequencies to hundreds of
Gigahertz. Also, we are especially interested in epidemiological studies, but
are not excluding laboratory studies that are especially pertinent to children
- for example, children seem to be more vulnerable to leukemia promoted by
EMF than do adults (my opinion). Thus, laboratory studies pertinent to
leukemia would be considered as well as epidemiological studies of
children's leukemia cases.
Further, we are interested in publications in any language - trusting
that we will be able to find a translator if necessary.
We already have the NIEHS report on health effects of power line frequency
fields, but we would appreciate being told about studies that we may not be
aware of. If you will send us the citations, she can get the material through
the university library and through Medline. Her current plans are to include
a section of the course on EMF hazards to children's health and safety. We
shall be most grateful for the assistance of the people on the EMF list in
this matter.
Bill and Gretchen Curry.....
Roy L. Beavers wrote:
>
> ......Folks, to avoid confusion -- this study (below) has been reported
> before on EMF-L.... It was also cited by Louis Slesin in his excellent
> editorial about the "bad job" of reporting we got from the press on
> the Liburdy affair -- the press zeroed in on the 'marginally relevant'
> Liburdy matter while ignoring other, bigger news of the same week. The
> study mentioned below (which is "recent" if not "new") is one of the
> examples cited by Louis....
>
> It is good to get some more on the study, which (I believe) had not
> previously been published??? Note, the information below assigns a risk
> factor of 2.0 to 4.0 as a result of higher EMF exposure!!!..... That is
> remarkably consistent with other study findings, going as far back as
> the Wertheimer-Leeper study in 1979.......
>
> As I wrote previously (at the time I was reviewing the NIEHS report by
> Ken Olden), I believe that many of the scientists who were present at
> the Minneapolis (Brooklyn Park) meeting would have voted that EMF is
> a "probable" carcinogen ... if they had been given a 'secret ballot'.....
> (See also, my essay, "Inertia and Malfeasance" on my web site.....)
>
> Cheerio....
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
> rbeavers@llion.org.......
> .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
> EMF-L web-site can be found at:
> EMF-L archives can be found at:
> ..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
>
> .........DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST?????............
>
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> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:54:34 -0400
> From: "John D. Evans"
> To: "Roy L. Beavers"
> Subject: Links to Leukemia
>
> Dear Roy and all,
>
> You may be interested to know that in the latest University of Toronto
> magazine (Autumn 1999 Volume XXVII Number 1 -- page 7) there is an
> article under the general heading "Leading Edge" entitled "Links to
> Leukemia." I am an alumnus of U of T, so I just phoned there to try to get
> more information on this study from Steven de Sousa who submitted it. When
> I have more, I will share it with members of EMF-L.
>
> The scanned item is below:
>
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>
> Links to Leukemia
>
> Researchers at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children
> have reported an association between magnetic field exposure and the risk
> of developing childhood leukemia. Measuring magnetic and electrical field
> exposure both inside and outside children's homes from such sources as
> power lines and house wiring, Lois Green of the department of public health
> sciences and her team found that children with leukemia were two to four
> times more likely than other children to have experienced high levels of
> exposure to magnetic fields. They also found that children who were
> diagnosed with leukemia before they turned six had experienced higher
> levels of exposure prenatally and before the age of two compared to the
> children who did not have leukemia. The researchers compared exposures of
> 201 children, who were diagnosed with leukemia at the Hospital for Sick
> Children between birth and age 14, with 406 children from the population
> without leukemia.
>
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>
> Cheers,
>
> John
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> * Wellington, ON K0K 3L0
> * Canada
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> * Phone: 613-399-5089
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