Electromagnetic Fields, Leukaemia and DNA Damage
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Following the email exchange between Hans Karow and REPACHOLI,
Repacholi wrote :
Sir Richard Doll, a very famous epidemiologist (who identified lung
cancer was caused by smoking), calculated that in a country with a
population of about 60 million, and given the same average low
frequency magnetic field exposure as the UK, that these fields would
cause an extra 1-2 leukaemias in children per year in the whole of the
UK.
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Remark : Sir Richard Doll is maybe famous, he didn't tell ever the truth...
My research done with :
leukaemia children UK increase (only first page consulted) give a lot
of interesting things, chiefly the first on. Take a look of the
abstracts above :
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ELADD.php
Electromagnetic Fields, Leukaemia and DNA Damage
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Court Brown and Richard Doll noted in a paper published in 1961 that a
new agent causing leukaemia had been introduced first into Britain
about 1920 and later into the United States and other countries. A new
peak in childhood leukaemia deaths between the ages two and four had
emerged in the UK in the 1920s, and in the 50 years starting 1911,
leukaemia mortality at ages under 10 had increased an average of 4.5%
per year.
At a conference organised by the charity Children with Leukemia in
London, UK, in September 2004, an entire day was devoted to the link
between EMF and childhood leukaemia. Among the speakers was Dr. Sam
Millham of Washington State Department of Health in the United States,
who described the remarkable correlation between the emergence of
childhood leukaemia and the electrification of homes, which began in
the 1920s in the UK and lightly later in the US. In the US,
electrification of farms and rural areas lagged behind urban areas
until 1958, so there is plenty of opportunity to compare mortality
rates due to childhood leukaemia in the death registers that were kept.
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http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=4610
November, 10, 2007
Who gets leukaemia?
Just under 7,000 cases of leukaemia were diagnosed in the UK in 2003.
About 2,900 of these were acute leukaemias.
Leukaemia is more common in men than women. Although we tend to hear
more about children being affected by leukaemia, far more adults are
diagnosed each year than children. Of the two main types of acute
leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is more common in children
than in adults. But acute myeloid leukaemia is more common in adults.
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http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=6860
How common is childhood cancer
Childhood cancer is much less common than adult cancer. In fact it is
quite rare. In the UK around 1,500 children each year are diagnosed
with a childhood cancer. This is a small number compared with
approximately 275,000 adults diagnosed with cancer in 2002. Leukaemia
is the most common type of cancer found in children but it is still
rare. Children develop different types of cancers than adults but
they are often treated with the same types of treatments.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3314.html
Children's leukaemia risk rises with parents' age
12:34 28 January 2003
NewScientist.com news service
Shaoni Bhattacharya
Children born to older parents have a significantly increased risk of
suffering from the most common form of leukaemia, a UK study has found.
The risk was 88 per cent higher for children whose mothers gave birth
at over 40 years of age, compared to mothers aged 25 to 29. Acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) accounts for about a quarter of
childhood cancers, with about 400 cases per year in the UK.
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http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/childhoodcancer/incidence/
Around 1,500 new cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed each year in
the UK, about 20% more in boys than in girls.
(Voir page HTML complète)
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http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Childrenscancers/Typesofchildrenscancers/Acutemyeloidleukaemia
Leukaemia
One third of all childhood cancers are leukaemia, with approximately
400 new cases occurring each year in the UK. Less than a quarter of
these are acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). AML can affect children of
any age, and girls and boys are affected equally.
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http://www.mrc.ac.uk/YourHealth/StoriesDiscovery/Leukaemia/index.htm
The proportion of eligible patients with cancer that join trials is
usually well under 10 per cent, and often only one or two per cent of
patients with certain cancers join trials. Recruitment to the
leukaemia trials, however, increased from 40 per cent of children with
ALL by 1971, to 82 per cent by 1984 and over 90 per cent today (2000).
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CONCLUSION : Repacholi is a marionette.
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With my very best Regards.
Philippe Hug
www.alerte.ch
Switzerland