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Cell Phones Damage DNA – The First Step To Cancer

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:37:12 +0000

The newest evidence from the government’s National Toxicology Program indicates more than 90 studies show that the radiation emitted by cell phones and other wireless devices can damage DNA, the first step on the road to cancer. It used to be thought that the tissues must “heat up” with radio frequency exposure in order to be at risk, but the latest studies contradict this hypothesis. Further, gliomas and schwannomas in (now) hundreds of thousands of people have been linked to long-term cell phone use.

Here is a complete article detailing these findings and what you can do.

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Pocket Watch

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:54:52 +0000

After presenting several articles on cell phone safety, I found this down-to-earth piece in Time Magazine. It’s an easy-to-understand quick read which reveals flaws in the test results that manufacturers use to state that cell phones are safe. This could also be used to separate them from liability should you develop a tumor from cell phone usage.

Please read POCKET WATCH along with considering how much you hold the device against your ear. If a cell phone is your ONLY phone, please, for your health, get a headset or use in speakerphone mode.

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IARC Raises its Concern over Cell Phone Radiation

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:06:28 +0000

[courtesy CNET News]

Until today, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) had said that there were no adverse health effects from the use of cell phones. The wireless industry, including the CTIA lobbying group, and the Federal Communications Commission and U.S. Food and Drug Administration have also long maintained that cell phones were safe.

In a report issued today, the IARC said it now lists mobile phone use in the same category as lead, gasoline engine exhaust, and chloroform. Officially, cell phone radiation is listed as a “carcinogenic hazard.” Download the IARC report here.

CNET has published a series of three articles which cover the issues very well. Here are the links:

In September, 2009, the connection had already been established between brain tumors and cell phone usage. At that time I wrote an article titled “Brain Tumors Solidly Linked to Cell Phone Usage“. The evidence has not changed. The danger is still there. What has changed is that this evidence has become more apparent. I would ask you to liken cell phone safety with driving safety; you fasten your seatbelt to reduce your chances of injury, and there are things you can do to reduce the health hazards from using a cell phone — these are listed in my article.

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Danger in Your Home: Cordless Phones

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:39:43 +0000

As most of you know, I have worked in the RF (radio frequency) industry, now better known as the wireless industry, throughout my life. My work has always involved both RF receivers and transmitters, and RF transmitters come with health risks unless precautions are taken. With the unprecedented increase in cordless phone usage, especially in homes where prolonged exposure can be inevitable, I feel compelled to make you aware of the dangers of RF when its use becomes substantial or the dangers go unheeded. The recent (August 25, 2009) release of the report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors – 15 Reasons for Concern” touches on what may actually be a bigger problem: the cordless phone (and possibly the baby monitor or intercom) you probably use at home. All of these contain RF transmitters, thus come with health risks.

Lenhart Hardell (Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden) has probably done the most complete job of determining the effects of exposure to cell phones and cordless phones. His latest report (accepted April 13, 2009 for publication in the International Journal of Oncology – available for download below) involving 905 cases with malignant brain tumors, 1,254 cases with benign tumors and 2,162 population-based controls provides irrefutable evidence solidly linking cordless phone usage to brain tumors.

Note that newer cordless phones may use DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) Technology. DECT may add yet more influences to the mix; here is an excerpt from “Medical warnings needed on DECT cordless phone use”, J. Aust. Coll. Nutr. & Env. Med. Vol. 25 No. 2 August 2006 (accepted for publication), Don Maisch, EMFacts Consultancy:

“Concerns within the German medical community led to the Freiburger Appeal in October 2002, signed by over 130 medical practitioners from the German environmental medicine medical organisation, Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin e. V. (IGUMED). The appeal was to express their concern over their medical observations of adverse health impacts from the use of both cell phones and DECT cordless phones. Symptoms were attributed to exposure to pulsed microwave radiation from cell phone and DECT technology. The following is an extract:

We have observed, in recent years, a dramatic rise in severe and chronic diseases among our patients, especially:

Learning, concentration, and behavioural disorders (e.g. attention deficit disorder, ADD)
Extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, ever harder to influence with medications
Heart rhythm disorders
Heart attacks and strokes among an increasingly younger population
Brain-degenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimers) and epilepsy
Cancerous afflictions: leukemia, brain tumors

Moreover, we have observed an ever-increasing occurrence of various disorders, often misdiagnosed in patients as psychosomatic:

Headaches, migraines
Chronic exhaustion
Inner agitation
Sleeplessness, daytime sleepiness
Tinnitus
Susceptibility to infection
Nervous and connective tissue pains, for which the usual causes do not explain even the most conspicuous symptoms

Since the living environment and lifestyles of our patients are familiar to us, we can see especially after carefully-directed inquiry a clear temporal and spatial correlation between the appearance of disease and exposure to pulsed high -frequency microwave radiation (HFMR), such as:

Installation of a mobile telephone sending station in the near vicinity
Intensive mobile telephone use
Installation of a digital cordless (DECT) telephone at home or in the neighbourhood”.

If you use a cordless phone regularly and substantially, it is imperative that you

move the base station out of any sleeping area
consider using the cordless phone only for short calls and emergencies
install wired telephones and make them your “normal use” phones or buy headsets for all cordless phones so that the transmitter is kept at a distance from your body.

Click here to download the full report: “Mobile phones, cordless phones and the risk for brain tumours“, as published in the International Journal of Oncology [PDF, 128KB]

Click here to download the full report: “Medical warnings needed on DECT cordless phone use” [PDF, 26KB]

The correlation between cordless phone usage and health problems as noted above is factual. In the case of brain tumors, there may be no indication for 5, 10, or more years, so you may be tempted to think you are not affected. The evidence strongly suggests YOU WILL BE AFFECTED, so please take appropriate action now to preserve your health.

If you use a cell phone, you should read the related article, Brain Tumors Solidly Linked to Cellphone Usage

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Brain Tumors Solidly Linked to Cell Phone Usage

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:47:12 +0000

Arguably on the same scale as the the plague, swine flu, and the tobacco-lung cancer relationship, the connection between cellphones and brain tumors is undeniable. Efforts to show there was no connection, and that cellphones are totally safe, came from the cell phone industry itself, not independent studies. The report described and available below not only reveals what many had feared for over a decade, but also exposes critical (read: ‘deadly‘) flaws built in to the upcoming Interphone study release.

43 scientists and doctors from 14 countries endorsed the document entitled, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors – 15 Reasons for Concern“. L. Lloyd Morgan (Bioelectromagnetics Society, Electronics Engineer) along with seven co-authors, created this report to provide an unbiased release of health-risk information related to the use of cell phones.

The report concludes:

There is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use
Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors
Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors

This report, sent to government leaders and media on August 25, 2009, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ‘systemic-skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.

The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as ‘unexposed’; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.

“In particular, the report’s purpose is to inform journalists and government officials of the
independent scientific findings that raise red flags, and also to address the design flaws in the Interphone study protocol that results in an underestimation of the risk of brain tumors from cellphone use. This report is fully referenced to enable further investigations and for detailed fact checking.”

USE YOUR CELLPHONE SAFELY…

If you are a regular user of a cellphone and you value your health, please take the time to fully understand this important issue, and what you can do to minimize your risk now. The idea is to keep the cellphone transmitter away from your body, especially your head. You can use a wired headset with the phone in a holster (not in your pocket) or place the cellphone in speakerphone mode – either of these solutions should place substantial distance between your head and the transmitter.

DOWNLOADS…

Click here to download the full report: “Cellphones and Brain Tumors – 15 Reasons for Concern” [PDF, 440KB]

Additional and updated information is available at these websites:

Powerwatch www.powerwatch.org.uk
Microwave News www.microwavenews.com
EMR Policy Institute www.emrpolicy.org
The Peoples Initiative Foundation www.ThePeoplesInitiative.org
ElectromagneticHealth.org www.electromagnetichealth.org

Finally, if you use a cordless phone, you should read the related article, Danger in Your Home: Cordless Phones

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A Doctor, A Government, and An Industry

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:27:02 +0000

George Carlo, PhD, JD, is an epidemiologist and medical scientist who, from 1993 to 1999, headed the first telecommunications industry-backed studies into the dangers of cell phone use. That program remains the largest in the history of the issue. But he ran afoul of the very industry that hired him when his work revealed preventable health hazards associated with cell phone use.

In this article, we look at why cell phones are dangerous; Dr. Carlo’s years-long battle to bring the truth about cell phone dangers to the public; the industry’s campaign to discredit him and other scientists in the field; and what you can do to protect yourself now.

Please read this intriguing fact-based article.. CLICK HERE

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