Alvaro Augusto A. de Salles warning on DECOMISSIONING OF MASTS

Posted by: Eileen O'Connor
Thu Mar 6, 2008 1:07 pm (PST)

Please read the following email from world leading EMF expert Alvaro Augusto A. de Salles regarding the mobile phone operators sharing networks and the increased health risks for people living close to the mast site.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alvaro Augusto Almeida de Salles
Sent: 06 March 2008 18:40
Subject: DECOMISSIONING OF MASTS BY MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR - TELEMASTERWEBSITE

Dear Eileen,

It is true that sharing network infrastructure facilities heavily reduces the cost burden of operating mast sites independently of each other. The number of mast sites required are also reduced.

However, sharing network infrastructure facilities usually increases the electromagnetic energy density in regions neighbour to the mast site. Therefore the health issues can become more critical in these places, increasing the health risks for the people living close to the mast site.

In other words, this might be a good alternative, but careful attention must be taken in order to avoid the neighbourhood health risk increase.


Alvaro Augusto A. de Salles
Electrical Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Av. Osvaldo Aranha 103, P.Alegre, RS, CEP 90.035-190, Brazil.


Eileen O'Connor
Radiation Research Trustee - UK Registered Charity http://www.radiationresearch.org


Data: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:25:36 -0000
De: Eileen O'Connor
Assunto: DECOMISSIONING OF MASTS BY MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR - TELEMASTER WEBSITE

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DECOMISSIONING OF MASTS BY MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR

The five main mobile phone operators, namely T-Mobile http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/ , Vodafone http://www.vodafone.co.uk/ , Orange http://www.orange.co.uk/ , 3 http://www.three.co.uk/ and O2 http://www.o2.co.uk/ are currently entering into all sorts of contract agreements with each other to share network infrastructure facilities across the UK. This will heavily reduce the cost burden of operating mast sites independently of each other, and will mean that much fewer mast site will be required over the coming years. It is estimated that as many as 5000 mast sites will be removed from the UK landscape, but it is still unclear which landlords will be affected. Any landlord, who receives a letter from their mobile phone mast tenant or one of their contractors stating that it intends to terminate the lease or licence agreement, or even offer to sell the mast to you at greatly reduced price, should contact a specialist firm of telecoms consultants, who acts only for landlords and or landowners. You may be entitled to compensation and you should not agree to anything in writing or verbally without first taking professional advice. Telemaster has a specialist solicitor and a team of chartered surveyors on hand to answer your queries and concerns. Initial consultants are free and confidential



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Interphone study from Israel

SMALL RISK FOR CANCER FROM MOBILE PHONES said Joachim Schüz from the Danish Cancer Organization in an interview about the Israelian Interphone study. Cancer of the salivary gland is very rare and in a normal population only 3 out of 10 000 will be hit. From a biological point of view it may be possible that the electromagnetic signal can penetrate the head a few centimeters, but the problem with this study is that people were asked about their habits 10 years back in time. People have a tendency to overestimate their use of the mobile phone. Moreover, when they have a tumour on the left side they are inclined to answer, deliberately or undeliberately, that they kept the phone on the left side of their head, in order to find an explanation for their tumour. Taking a look at all these studies, there is no proof that talking in a mobile phone gives cancer. If you only talk a little there is no risk and if you are a heavy user there will be a very small risk. The electromagnetic field is too weak to harm our DNA. However, we cannot yet say that mobile phones are completely harmless, because not many people have used a mobile phone more than 10 years, the time for cancer to develop. So we need more studies. In Denmark we have started a new large international study COSMOS. This study will not have the weakness from the previous study, because we will ask people to report habits and symptoms regularly and right from the beginning of the whole test period. Our problem however is that even though we asked 100 000 persons to participate, only 20 000 signed up. This number is sufficient if we only study cancer, headache, migraine and dizzyness, but for a study of cancer on the acoustic nerve we need many more.


Sianette Kwee
Denmark



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The newest data in both the Danish Cancer register and the Register for causes of death are over 5 years old. Now Danish scientists raise the alarm, because this will set back Danish research. The vicedirector for the Health Council said that this was due to their computer problems. There is still not appointed a director since the last one was fired more than 1.5 years ago. One wonders how reliable ared the results from the Danish Interphone study?

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Israel, Dr Sadetzki's study links protracted cellphone use with tumors

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Feb 17, 2008
The Jerusalem Post
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

Tumors of the parotid (salivary) glands are significantly more common in people who use cellular phones over a relatively long period, according to a retrospective study of nearly 500 Israelis who contracted such benign or malignant growths compared to more than twice as many healthy controls. This is reportedly the first study of the possible effects of cellphone use by Israelis, who are known to utilize them for many minutes per day and start at young ages.

The study, led by Sheba Medical Center physician and Tel Aviv University epidemiologist Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, was announced late last week on the Web site Science Daily (sciencedaily.com) and published recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Sadetzki, who has appeared several times at Knesset committees about the possible risk of cellular phone usage, said that while the results needed to be confirmed by additional and longer studies, in the meantime precautions should be taken. These include limiting the use of cellphones by children and both kids and adults using earphones and other means to distance the cellphone from the head whenever possible.

She conducted her study as part of the international Interphone Study, which aimed to discover if cellphone use and several kinds of brain and salivary gland tumors were linked.

Those who used a cellphone very frequently on the side of the head where the tumor developed were found to have an increased risk of about 50 percent for developing a tumor of the main salivary gland, compared to those who did not use cellphones, the study revealed. The parotid gland is located under the external ear about four to 10 millimeters under the skin.

Sadetzki, who owns and uses a cellphone, but sparingly, said that the fact that the study was done on an Israeli population is significant. Only a small minority of Israelis do not use cellphones, and those who do are likely to use them many more minutes than in other countries.

In Israel, where the cost is relatively inexpensive, there is a greater tendency to keep in touch due to familial closeness and security problems and nearly every part of the country has cellular antenna coverage.

Sadetzki explained: "Unlike people in other countries, Israelis were quick to adopt cellphone technology and have continued to be exceptionally heavy users. Therefore, the amount of exposure to radio-frequency radiation found in this study has been higher than in previous cellphone studies.

"This unique population has given us an indication that cellphone use is associated with cancer," added Sadetzki, whose team surveyed (by regular telephones) salivary tumor patients in hospitals around the country. The study's subjects were asked to detail their cellphone use patterns according to how frequently they used one, the average length of calls, and the side of the head the phone was next to. Their responses were then compared to a randomized sample of about 1,300 healthy control subjects.

The study also found an increased risk of cancer for heavy users who lived in rural areas, as cellphones in rural areas emit more radiation to communicate effectively because of longer distances between them and antennas.

Sadetzki predicted that, over time, the greatest effects would be found in heavy users and children. The lead researcher said that while the world was not willing to give up their cellular phones, precautions must be taken to reduce exposure and lower the risk for health hazards.

She recommended that people use hands-free devices at all times and when talking, hold the phone away from one's body. Less frequent calls, shorter in duration, should also have some protective effect. In addition, parents need to consider at what age their children start using them and insist that they use speakers or other hands-free devices.

"Some technology that we use today carries a risk. The question is not if we use it, but how we use it," she concluded.



Israel, Dr. Sadetzki, Handygebrauch fördert Tumore

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24.02.2008
The Jerusalem Post
17. Februar 2008

Studie bringt ausgedehnten Mobiltelefongebrauch mit Tumoren in Zusammenhang

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
Deutsche Übersetzung: Evi Gaigg/Diagnose-Funk

Tumore der Ohrspeicheldrüse treten signifikant häufiger als gewöhnlich auf bei Menschen, die Mobiltelefone über längere Zeit hinweg benutzen. Dies gemäss einer retrospektiven Studie bei fast 500 Israelis, welche an solch gut- oder bösartigen Tumoren erkranken, verglichen mit mehr als einer zweifachen Vergleichsgruppe. Dies ist, wie gemeldet, die erste Studie über mögliche Effekte durch den Gebrauch eines Mobiltelefons bei Israelis, von denen man weiss, dass sie es viele Minuten pro Tag benutzen und damit im jugendlichen Alter begonnen haben.

Die Studie, durchgeführt von der Ärztin und Epidemiologin Dr. Siegal Sadetzki vom Sheba Medical Center der Tel Aviv Universität, wurde letzte Woche auf der Webseite von Science Daily (sciencedaily.com) angekündigt und kürzlich im Amerikanischen Journal für Epidemiologie veröffentlicht. Sadetzki, die einige Male vor den Knesset-Komitees wegen der möglichen Risiken des Mobiltelefongebrauchs vorstellig geworden war, sagte, die Resultate müssten durch weitere und längere Studien bestätigt werden.

In der Zwischenzeit sollte Vorsorge betrieben werden. Diese schliesse die Begrenzung von Handygebrauch für Kinder ein und beide, sowohl Kinder als auch Erwachsene, sollten Kopfhörer benutzen und andere Massnahmen, um die Distanz vom Mobiltelefon zum Kopf, wenn immer möglich, zu minimieren.

Sie führte ihre Studie als Teil der internationalen Interphone-Studie durch, welche zum Ziel hatte herauszufinden, ob Handygebrauch und verschiedene Arten von Hirn- und Speicheldrüsen -Tumore einen Zusammenhang hätten.
Bei jenen, die sehr häufig ein Handy auf der Kopfseite benutzten, wo sich ein Tumor entwickelt, hat man ein steigendes Risiko von etwa 50 Prozent gefunden, einen Speicheldrüsenkrebs zu bekommen, verglichen mit jenen, die kein Handy benutzen, sagte die Studie aus. Die Ohrspeicheldrüse befindet sich unter dem Aussenohr, ca. 10 Millimeter unter der Haut.

Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, die selbst ein Handy besitzt und benutzt, aber sparsam, sagte, dass die Studie, die an der israelischen Bevölkerung durchgeführt wurde, signifikant ist. Nur eine kleine Minderheit von Israelis benutzen kein Handy und jene, die es tun, benutzen es viele Minuten länger, als in dies in anderen Ländern der Fall ist.

In Israel, wo die Kosten relativ gering sind, besteht eine grössere Tendenz, wegen der höheren Familiendichte und der Sicherheitsprobleme, in Verbindung zu bleiben und fast jeder Teil des Landes hat Handy-Abdeckung.

Dr. Siegal Sadetzki erklärte: „Anders als in anderen Ländern, waren die Israelis schneller bereit, die Handy-Technologie zu übernehmen und sind damit zu ganz besonders starken Handy-Usern geworden.
Darum war der Anstieg von Exposition durch elektromagnetische Strahlung, die man in dieser Studie gefunden hat, höher, als in vorangehenden Handy-Studien.“

„Diese besondere Population hat uns ein Hinweis gegeben, dass Handygebrauch mit Krebs verbunden ist“, fügte Sadetzki hinzu, deren Team mit Hilfe von Telefonanrufen Speicheldrüsentumor-Patienten in Spitälern landesweit überprüft.

Die Studienteilnehmer wurden aufgefordert, die Einzelheiten ihres Handygebrauchs aufzuführen, dh. wie häufig sie es benutzten, die Länge der Gespräche und die Kopfseite an der das Telefon gehalten wurde. Ihre Antworten wurden mit zufällig ausgewählten ca. 1300 gesunden Kontrollpersonen verglichen. Die Studie fand auch ein gestiegenes Risiko von Krebs bei Vielnutzern, die in ländlichen Gebieten wohnen, da in ländlichen Gegenden wegen der grösseren Distanzen zwischen ihnen und den Antennen mehr Strahlung emittiert wird, um effektiver kommunizieren zu können. Sadetzki sagte voraus, dass mit der Zeit die grössten Auswirkungen bei Vielnutzern und Kindern gefunden würden. Die führende Forscherin sagte, wenn die Welt ihre Handys nicht aufgeben wollte, müssten Vorsorgemassnahmen getroffen werden, um die Exposition zu verringern und die Risiken für Gesundheitsschäden zu senken. Sie empfahl, dass die Menschen Freisprechanlagen immer dann benutzen sollten, wenn sie sprechen und das Telefon vom Körper weghalten. Weniger häufige Anrufe und kürzere Dauer sollten auch einige Schutzwirkung haben. Auserdem sollten Eltern festlegen, von welchem Alter an ihre Kinder mit dem Handygebrauch beginnen und sollten darauf dringen, dass sie Speaker oder andere Freisprechanlagen benutzen.

„Einige Technologien, wie wir sie heute verwenden sind risikoträchtig. Die Frage ist nicht, ob wir sie verwenden, sondern wie wir sie verwenden“.

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