Siting of a great number of mobile phone masts in Western Denmark
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I had an interview on occasion of the siting of a great number of mobile phone masts in Western Danmark. On January 22, the newspaper Jydske Vestkysten brought 3 fullpage articles about this. Christoffer Johansen was also cited. He repeats his mantra that masts are definitely not dangerous, and now it is also proven that cellular phones do not cause cancer. Here he refers to the latest study in British Medical Journal. All we are waiting for now, is studies about mobile phones and children that will show that they are harmless. What else can one do but to shrug one's shoulders?
Sianette Kwee
Sensommervej 16
DK-8600 Silkeborg
Denmark
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As much as I know, the German part of the Interphone study showed that the risk of a glioma was twice as high for mobile phone users that uses mobile phones longer than ten years. It is really ridiculous and dangerous to say now mobile phones are safe. A smoker will also not die from cancer in the first ten years of his smoking period. Even the longer periods are important. If a mobile phone user wants to live only ten years they will be safe for him. It is also important that parts of Interphone and of other know studies showed increased risk of acusticusneurinoma. Mobile phone industry says that acusticusneurinomas are benign but that's to easy. They must be operated somewhen and there is always a high risk to lose hearing.
Jörg Wichmann
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By the time children who use cell phones get tumours they will be adults, not children. Therefore, as no children have tumours, cell phones must be safe for children. How's that for PR spin!
Milt Bowling
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I am most concerned about Leif Salford's dead/damaged/dark neurons which looks like a marker of the cellular surface (inlcuding charge) and has been though of as a marker of cellular 'exhaustion'. Leif's evidence suggests the likely early onset of dementias. i.e. why is everyone so worried about tumours?
Alasdair Philips
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Yes, a very good point. Also see our most recent paper Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Alzheimer mortality - why does it increase so fast in sparsely populated areas?", Europ Biol Bioelectromag 2005; 1: 225-246.
Also a very good comment. In addition, see some of our recent papers regarding/discussing long-term predictions:
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Melanoma incidence and frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting", Arch Environ Health 2002; 57: 32-40
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Har tusentals personer offrats i onödan sedan 1955?" (="Have thousands of persons unnecessarily been sacrificed since 1955?"; in Swedish), Nord Tidsskr Biol Med 2002; 2: 26-27
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Cancerdödlighet och långtidssjukskrivning" (="Cancer mortality and long-term sick leave"; in Swedish), Tidskriften Medikament 2002; 7: 40-41
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Cancer trends during the 20th century", J Aust Coll Nutr & Env Med 2002; 21: 3-8
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Malignant melanoma of the skin - not a sunshine story!", Med Sci Monit 2004; 10: CR336-340
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Long-term sickness and mobile phone use", J Aust Coll Nutr & Env Med, 2004; 23: 11-12
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Mobile handset output power and health", Electromag Biol Med 2004; 23: 229-239
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "FM broadcasting exposure time and malignant melanoma incidence", Electromag Biol Med 2005; 24: 1-8
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Glesbygd är en sjuk miljö, nu börjar även friska dö" (="Say to countryside goodbye, when even healthy people die"; in Swedish), Enheten för Experimentell Dermatologi, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Rapport nr. 6, 2004, ISSN 1400-6111, in press
Olle Johansson,
assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
http://openpr.com/news/4280
I had an interview on occasion of the siting of a great number of mobile phone masts in Western Danmark. On January 22, the newspaper Jydske Vestkysten brought 3 fullpage articles about this. Christoffer Johansen was also cited. He repeats his mantra that masts are definitely not dangerous, and now it is also proven that cellular phones do not cause cancer. Here he refers to the latest study in British Medical Journal. All we are waiting for now, is studies about mobile phones and children that will show that they are harmless. What else can one do but to shrug one's shoulders?
Sianette Kwee
Sensommervej 16
DK-8600 Silkeborg
Denmark
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As much as I know, the German part of the Interphone study showed that the risk of a glioma was twice as high for mobile phone users that uses mobile phones longer than ten years. It is really ridiculous and dangerous to say now mobile phones are safe. A smoker will also not die from cancer in the first ten years of his smoking period. Even the longer periods are important. If a mobile phone user wants to live only ten years they will be safe for him. It is also important that parts of Interphone and of other know studies showed increased risk of acusticusneurinoma. Mobile phone industry says that acusticusneurinomas are benign but that's to easy. They must be operated somewhen and there is always a high risk to lose hearing.
Jörg Wichmann
--------
By the time children who use cell phones get tumours they will be adults, not children. Therefore, as no children have tumours, cell phones must be safe for children. How's that for PR spin!
Milt Bowling
--------
I am most concerned about Leif Salford's dead/damaged/dark neurons which looks like a marker of the cellular surface (inlcuding charge) and has been though of as a marker of cellular 'exhaustion'. Leif's evidence suggests the likely early onset of dementias. i.e. why is everyone so worried about tumours?
Alasdair Philips
--------
Yes, a very good point. Also see our most recent paper Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Alzheimer mortality - why does it increase so fast in sparsely populated areas?", Europ Biol Bioelectromag 2005; 1: 225-246.
Also a very good comment. In addition, see some of our recent papers regarding/discussing long-term predictions:
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Melanoma incidence and frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting", Arch Environ Health 2002; 57: 32-40
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Har tusentals personer offrats i onödan sedan 1955?" (="Have thousands of persons unnecessarily been sacrificed since 1955?"; in Swedish), Nord Tidsskr Biol Med 2002; 2: 26-27
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Cancerdödlighet och långtidssjukskrivning" (="Cancer mortality and long-term sick leave"; in Swedish), Tidskriften Medikament 2002; 7: 40-41
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Cancer trends during the 20th century", J Aust Coll Nutr & Env Med 2002; 21: 3-8
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Malignant melanoma of the skin - not a sunshine story!", Med Sci Monit 2004; 10: CR336-340
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Long-term sickness and mobile phone use", J Aust Coll Nutr & Env Med, 2004; 23: 11-12
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Mobile handset output power and health", Electromag Biol Med 2004; 23: 229-239
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "FM broadcasting exposure time and malignant melanoma incidence", Electromag Biol Med 2005; 24: 1-8
Hallberg Ö, Johansson O, "Glesbygd är en sjuk miljö, nu börjar även friska dö" (="Say to countryside goodbye, when even healthy people die"; in Swedish), Enheten för Experimentell Dermatologi, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Rapport nr. 6, 2004, ISSN 1400-6111, in press
Olle Johansson,
assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
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