Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?
http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/033105/f033105_04.htm
I knew I was in for trouble when my dear Native American friend, Spirit, sent me a "Warrior necklace" handmade by herself with beads and here it is! See my reply. WAR IS DECLARED!
Sandi
Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?
In the third instalment of her cancer diary, Fiona Green, 62, asks why she became sick.
THE four weeks of radiation treatment are over, the effects peak and I am still unable to eat and the pain is at its worst. This is because the treatment is cumulative. I hoped to have my appointment for complementary therapy massage come through by now. But no, they are booked until the summer. A “very long waiting list” is blamed. I was disappointed and that helps make it bearable. As my visitors come I put on a brave face for each of them, which is expected in our society. “Shut up and put up” or “grin and bear it” are British phrases from the world wars, and they still apply with a ferocity. That applies everywhere, except within the walls of the MacMillan Support Radiographer’s room. With Mark, I was able to grieve the loss of my hair, health, the recent death of a loved one and even to make light of the ghastly mask.
Next I had to address my shrinking funds and this is how serious illness gets you. It’s never just a case of ‘rest and get well’. Money has to be gained or the next thing severe debt follows. I queued along with more than 50 others at social services on a freezing February morning to see if I qualified for incapacity benefit (no), income support (no) and pension credit (maybe). People in the queue were marvellous – so bright and cheerful.
There was a young woman newly out of prison, another out of hospital and two with babies all making jokes about their terrible predicament. These people are the invisible thousands, stripped of their dignity, and waiting for meagre handouts from the heavy government purse. They are given impossibly small amounts to live on. In order to make sense of my illness, I looked around for reasons why I had contracted such a nasty cancer. I had been a heavy drinker and smoker when I was young and there is certainly evidence linking that with throat cancer, but The Evening Standard recently highlighted the issue of mobile phone masts in my area. There are 83 of them within a quarter of a mile of my home and the Middlesex Hospital.
I did some research on the internet and there is evidence to prove a link between these masts and lymphomas, which is the type of cancer I had contracted. How can these dangerous things be allowed to proliferate within a densely populated area like ours? The nearby primary school could be affected too. People protest when just one mast is planned for their town. Here we have more and more planning applications for them each week. Environmental health officers responded to the protests with the line: “There is no definite evidence of a connection.” How many people have to be made ill before something is done?
It would be easy to assess how many people from my area are on the hospital books for cancer if I could get access to such information. I have been quite positive throughout my treatment but when it stops I have been warned that depression can set in and that is when friends start to disappear.
I read that all the adrenaline that has kept me going throughout will subside too. To counter this I have set aside a day each week to paint. My new diet is filled with an abundance of fruit and vegetables and antitoxins and I actually enjoy food shopping for the first time in my life.
Gone is the weekly trawl to Tesco and instead I am skipping to the health shop. I have a juicer and an electric whisk to make wonderful drinks, and more time in the country air, away from the mobile phone masts.
• Fiona Green, of Fitzrovia, is a retired counsellor and teacher of children suffering from ill health.
Letter for publication please and will you please pass on my phone number to Fiona Green so that I can offer her support.
I am a committee member for http://www.mastsanity.org , a voluntary organisation offering free advice and support on mast queries and problems. I also co-ordinate the Advice Line (08704 322 377), so I have dealt with many instances of prolific masts in communities.
I always feel upset when I deal with these, but I cried when I read Fiona Green's letter in the Article 'Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?'
I have designed a letter called 'The Voice of the People of the UK ' which lists all the injustices people tell me of on the Mast Sanity advice line week after week. It can be sent to government offices. I did so because no one in the UK seems to have any human rights, or any way to air grievances, concerns, or fears, about these masts.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545013/
After reading that article today, though, I feel that my letter alone is not enough, so I will do more, and encourage others to do more, to end the outrageous injustice that this government and mobile phone companies inflict on us all.
There is peer reviewed evidence that this microwave radiation causes harm to human and animal life (and there has been since the 70's), but it has been, and is still, ignored by those whom we elected into Parliament to serve us and our country.
The reason is very simple. Profits and tax revenues comes before the health and well-being of humans, animal life, and our environment. We are callously treated as guinea pigs for this new technology, even though those responsible know that the older phone mast technology can cause cancer long term.
Mast Sanity is issuing health survey forms to areas where there are 3G and TETRA masts and, less frequently, to areas of long term exisiting 2G masts. It has been noted that TETRA ill health effects are instant with some people, but 3G is not far behind.
Yet Government dictates that health should not be a planning consideration and gives free rein to mast companies to put up phone masts anywhere despite the reiterated recommendations of Sir William Stewart in his report of January 2005 for the NRPB!
I will do more, enough is enough
Sincerely
Mrs Sandi Lawrence
I knew I was in for trouble when my dear Native American friend, Spirit, sent me a "Warrior necklace" handmade by herself with beads and here it is! See my reply. WAR IS DECLARED!
Sandi
Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?
In the third instalment of her cancer diary, Fiona Green, 62, asks why she became sick.
THE four weeks of radiation treatment are over, the effects peak and I am still unable to eat and the pain is at its worst. This is because the treatment is cumulative. I hoped to have my appointment for complementary therapy massage come through by now. But no, they are booked until the summer. A “very long waiting list” is blamed. I was disappointed and that helps make it bearable. As my visitors come I put on a brave face for each of them, which is expected in our society. “Shut up and put up” or “grin and bear it” are British phrases from the world wars, and they still apply with a ferocity. That applies everywhere, except within the walls of the MacMillan Support Radiographer’s room. With Mark, I was able to grieve the loss of my hair, health, the recent death of a loved one and even to make light of the ghastly mask.
Next I had to address my shrinking funds and this is how serious illness gets you. It’s never just a case of ‘rest and get well’. Money has to be gained or the next thing severe debt follows. I queued along with more than 50 others at social services on a freezing February morning to see if I qualified for incapacity benefit (no), income support (no) and pension credit (maybe). People in the queue were marvellous – so bright and cheerful.
There was a young woman newly out of prison, another out of hospital and two with babies all making jokes about their terrible predicament. These people are the invisible thousands, stripped of their dignity, and waiting for meagre handouts from the heavy government purse. They are given impossibly small amounts to live on. In order to make sense of my illness, I looked around for reasons why I had contracted such a nasty cancer. I had been a heavy drinker and smoker when I was young and there is certainly evidence linking that with throat cancer, but The Evening Standard recently highlighted the issue of mobile phone masts in my area. There are 83 of them within a quarter of a mile of my home and the Middlesex Hospital.
I did some research on the internet and there is evidence to prove a link between these masts and lymphomas, which is the type of cancer I had contracted. How can these dangerous things be allowed to proliferate within a densely populated area like ours? The nearby primary school could be affected too. People protest when just one mast is planned for their town. Here we have more and more planning applications for them each week. Environmental health officers responded to the protests with the line: “There is no definite evidence of a connection.” How many people have to be made ill before something is done?
It would be easy to assess how many people from my area are on the hospital books for cancer if I could get access to such information. I have been quite positive throughout my treatment but when it stops I have been warned that depression can set in and that is when friends start to disappear.
I read that all the adrenaline that has kept me going throughout will subside too. To counter this I have set aside a day each week to paint. My new diet is filled with an abundance of fruit and vegetables and antitoxins and I actually enjoy food shopping for the first time in my life.
Gone is the weekly trawl to Tesco and instead I am skipping to the health shop. I have a juicer and an electric whisk to make wonderful drinks, and more time in the country air, away from the mobile phone masts.
• Fiona Green, of Fitzrovia, is a retired counsellor and teacher of children suffering from ill health.
Letter for publication please and will you please pass on my phone number to Fiona Green so that I can offer her support.
I am a committee member for http://www.mastsanity.org , a voluntary organisation offering free advice and support on mast queries and problems. I also co-ordinate the Advice Line (08704 322 377), so I have dealt with many instances of prolific masts in communities.
I always feel upset when I deal with these, but I cried when I read Fiona Green's letter in the Article 'Is my cancer linked to forest of phone masts?'
I have designed a letter called 'The Voice of the People of the UK ' which lists all the injustices people tell me of on the Mast Sanity advice line week after week. It can be sent to government offices. I did so because no one in the UK seems to have any human rights, or any way to air grievances, concerns, or fears, about these masts.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/545013/
After reading that article today, though, I feel that my letter alone is not enough, so I will do more, and encourage others to do more, to end the outrageous injustice that this government and mobile phone companies inflict on us all.
There is peer reviewed evidence that this microwave radiation causes harm to human and animal life (and there has been since the 70's), but it has been, and is still, ignored by those whom we elected into Parliament to serve us and our country.
The reason is very simple. Profits and tax revenues comes before the health and well-being of humans, animal life, and our environment. We are callously treated as guinea pigs for this new technology, even though those responsible know that the older phone mast technology can cause cancer long term.
Mast Sanity is issuing health survey forms to areas where there are 3G and TETRA masts and, less frequently, to areas of long term exisiting 2G masts. It has been noted that TETRA ill health effects are instant with some people, but 3G is not far behind.
Yet Government dictates that health should not be a planning consideration and gives free rein to mast companies to put up phone masts anywhere despite the reiterated recommendations of Sir William Stewart in his report of January 2005 for the NRPB!
I will do more, enough is enough
Sincerely
Mrs Sandi Lawrence
Starmail - 2. Apr, 11:27
