Mobile phone radiation is a possible cancer risk, says WHO
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Mona Nilsson
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MOBILE RADIATION
WHO IARC agency announced yesterday that they expect
the mobile and DECT phones, or wireless telelefoner,
can cause malignant brain tumor. The fact that mobile phone use increases the
risk of cancer has been made clear reason why the risk
increases have been toned down to be found in the
enormous economic interests at stake in the assessment
of cell phone cancer risks. It writes journalist Mona
Nilsson.
WHO-IARC agency announced
yesterday that they expect the mobile and DECT phones,
ie wireless telelefoner, can cause malignant brain
tumor. They
base their conclusion on studies showing that mobile
and DECT phone use increases the risk of brain tumors.
Over a week has 31 researchers
reviewed almost all research in mobile radiation and
cancer. The
studies that are primarily now forms the basis of
positions adopted by the IARC and highlighted during
the press conference in Lyon on 31 May, was
epidemiological studies of cancer doctor Lennart
Hardell of Örebro University Hospital and the results
from the international WHO-study Interphone, published
in May 2010.
In the latter study was presented
in Sweden, said professors at the Karolinska
Institute, Anders Ahlbom and Maria Feychting, that it
did not show any increased risk. This led in turn to that most
Swedish media incorrectly a year ago reported that the
study showed that cell phone does not cause cancer and
that P1 tomorrow still June 1, 2011 claimed that the
study would not show any increased risk.
I have repeated in articles last
year pointed out that the study actually showed an
increased brain tumor risk to today's normal user and
project manager for the study believed that the
findings were worrying as they showed that today's
ordinary users are at increased risk. The reason why the risk
increases toned down to be found in the enormous
economic interests at stake in the assessment of cell
phone cancer risks.
Professor Anders Ahlbom was
supposed to lead the now conducted epidemiological
evaluation of cancer, IARC, but left his expert chair
at the last moment before the meeting starts. Reason: I could reveal that he had formed a
consulting company with his brother, Gunnar Ahlbom AB,
where he was both signatories as a director. The firm would be under the manual system to
target its services, including lobbying and public
relations, specifically to the telecommunications
industry. In
addition, his brother worked for TeliaSonera in
Brussels in less than 13 years.
The IARC classification means a
total rejection of Professors Anders Ahlbom and Maria
Feychting message to the authorities, media and public
in recent years. Anders Ahlbom
said, for example, in an interview with Swedish Radio
(Body and Soul) in February 2011: "Interphone will
show the same things as any other research has shown
previously that there is nothing to fear". In other contexts, he claims
that research has not shown any risk at all during all
the years we researched the health risks of mobile
telephony.
The IARC assessment the stands
also in stark contrast to the Radiation Safety
Authority, SSM, messages which in turn refers to
assessments that Anders Ahlbom made to the Authority
for eight years. Ahlbom has
also led all other investigations carried out in
Sweden (Council for Working Life and Social Research,
FAS). SSM
argues that DECT phones are harmless.
It is high time that the SSM and,
FAS, appoints new truly independent and impartial
experts, since during the 2000s used the services of
experts in shocking conflicts of interest. There is also a rush to set up a
parliamentary investigation of SSM's miserable and
clearly the mobile industry to turn cellular risk
management issue for many years. SSM has failed to inform the public that
research for several years have seen an increased risk
of malignant brain tumor. SSM
has also, in a scandalous manner, completely ignored
the alarming findings of Hardell of particular
high-risk youth. Instead, the
authority's representative argued that children and
young people would not be particularly sensitive to
radiation "in any way", a stance that is
almost unique in the world.
We have lost
many years of prevention efforts by providing
information and protection of the public who instead
are tricked into believing that the mobile
phone and DECT phone friskrivits from brain cancer
risk and therefore use them without limits, as well as
virtually all children and adolescents in Sweden. What are the consequences? We know that brain tumors often
have a 10 year latency.
The responsibility rests heavily
on Radiation Protection Authority, Government, the
mobile industry and Anders Ahlbom and colleagues at
the Karolinska Institute. The responsibility also rests
heavily on the influential media who are not
critically examined whether experts or authorities -
despite the obvious and repeated lies and ties to
industry. And cancer
is unfortunately far from the only health risk with
cell phone radiation.