Collective Evolution
In Brief
- The Facts: A
groundbreaking study shows the strong connection between Cell Phone
towers and cancer. It's one of many showing how electromagnetic
radiation is harming human health at an exponential rate, and another
example of industry trumps science.
- Reflect On: There are
thousands of scientists creating awareness about this, but the industry
has become so powerful that they can do whatever they want. How are they
allowed to continue when we have definitive proof of harmful health
effects? What's going on?
Scientists
call on the World Health Organization International Agency for Research
on Cancer to re-evaluate the carcinogenicity of cell phone radiation
after the Ramazzini Institute and US government studies report finding
the same unusual cancers.
I am posting this article with the permission of Environmental Health Trust and can be found online at ehtrust.org.
(Washington, DC) – Researchers with the renowned Ramazzini Institute (RI) in Italy announced that a large-scale lifetime study of
lab animals exposed to environmental levels of cell tower radiation
developed cancer. A $25 million study of much higher levels of cell
phone radiofrequency (RF) radiation, from the US National Toxicology Program (NTP),
has also reported finding the same unusual cancer called Schwannoma of
the heart in male rats treated at the highest dose. In addition, the RI
study of cell tower radiation also found increases in malignant brain
(glial) tumors in female rats and precancerous conditions including
Schwann cells hyperplasia in both male and female rats.
The study findings are making headline news. Read the Corriere Di Bologna article “Cellulari, a study by Ramazzini: “They cause very rare tumours.”
“Our findings of cancerous tumours in
rats exposed to environmental levels of RF are consistent with and
reinforce the results of the US NTP studies on cell phone radiation, as
both reported increases in the same types of tumours of the brain and
heart in Sprague-Dawley rats. Together, these studies provide sufficient
evidence to call for the International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC) to re-evaluate and re-classify their conclusions regarding the
carcinogenic potential of RFR in humans,” said Fiorella Belpoggi Ph.D.,
study author and RI Director of Research.
The Ramazzini study exposed 2448
Sprague-Dawley rats from prenatal life until their natural death to
“environmental” cell tower radiation for 19 hours per day (1.8 GHz GSM
radiofrequency radiation (RFR) of 5, 25 and 50 V/m). RI exposures
mimicked base station emissions like those from cell tower antennas, and
exposure levels were far less than those used in the NTP studies of
cell phone radiation.
“All of the exposures used in the
Ramazzini study were below the US FCC limits. These are permissible
exposures according to the FCC. In other words, a person can legally be
exposed to this level of radiation. Yet cancers occurred in these
animals at these legally permitted levels. The Ramazzini findings are
consistent with the NTP study demonstrating these effects are a
reproducible finding,” explained Ronald Melnick Ph.D., formerly the
Senior NIH toxicologist who led the design of the NTP study on cell
phone radiation now a Senior Science Advisor to Environmental Health
Trust (EHT). “Governments need to strengthen regulations to protect the
public from these harmful non-thermal exposures.”
“This important article from one of the
most acclaimed institutions of its kind in the world provides a major
new addition to the technical literature indicating strong reasons for
concern about electromagnetic radiation from base stations or cell
towers,” stated Editor in Chief of Environmental Research Jose Domingo
PhD, Professor of Toxicology, School of Medicine at Reus University,
Catalonia, Spain.