Naila
Study, Germany (November 2004)
Report by researchers (five medical doctors)
Following the call by
Wolfram König, President of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal
Agency for radiation protection), to all doctors of medicine to
collaborate actively in the assessment of the risk posed by cellular
radiation, the aim of our study was to examine whether people living
close to cellular transmitter antennas were exposed to a heightened
risk of taking ill with malignant tumors.
The basis of the data used
for the survey were PC fi1es of the case histories of patients between
the years 1994 and 2004. While adhering to data protection, the
personal data of almost 1.000 patients were evaluated for this study,
which was completed without any external financial support. It is
intended to continue the project in the form of a register.
The result of the study shows that the proportion of newly developing
cancer cases was significantly higher among those patients who had
lived during the past ten years at a distance of up to 400 metres from
the cellular transmitter site, which bas been in operation since 1993,
compared to those patients living further away, and that the patients
fell ill on average 8 years earlier.
In the years 1999-2004,
i.e. after five years operation of the transmitting installation, the
relative risk of getting cancer had trebled for the residents of the
area in the proximity of the installation compared to the inhabitants
of Naila outside the area.
NOTE: These are the only
studies known of that specifically consider the effects of masts on
people. All five of these studies show clear and significant ill-health
effects. There are no known studies relating to health effects of masts
that do not show such ill-health effects.
In this respect, any statement by industry or official sources that
claims (or suggests) that:
(a) There is no evidence of ill-health effects from masts;
or
(b) The overwhelming evidence is that masts do not cause ill-health
effects;
is completely and blatantly untrue.
Dr Grahame Blackwell
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What causes
cancer to the hospital workers?
Maariv newspaper (Israel)
25.9.07
By Ela Harnoi and Hila Alroi
Haifa's Carmel hospital workers are
scared: lately there has been found a large number of cancer cases,
especially on one of the top floors of the main building. Part of the
workers are afraid that the cause is the cellular antenna which is
erected near this floor. The hospital opened an investigation. Among
the patients: the department manager, a unit manager, nurses and
official physicians. In one of the cases, the department manager left
the hospital after he got sick and the person who came
instead of him got sick too. At least
5 team members of the same floor got cancer, and additional number of
doctors and nurses of other floors. Among the diseases: pancreas
cancer, liver, lymphoma, breast cancer, multiple myloma and brain
tumors. The team was worried for some time about the cancer morbidity
that seems to be abnormal, and during the last two weeks another case
was discovered in a nurse who works at the same floor where other team
members got sick.
The hospital manager, Dr. Hen
Shapira, asked Prof. Gadi Renart, manager of the cancer control center
at the General Health
Services and manager of department of
community and epidemiology in the Carmel medical center, to start
investigating the cases. "During these days accurate data is collected
in order to check whether there is excess of morbidity than expected"
explained Prof. Renart yesterday.
Part of the workers blame the cellular
antenna which is located near one of the floors where large number of
cancer cases
was discovered. But Prof. Renart says,
"the thought that the cause is an antenna is probably not realistic,
because according to the scientific knowledge that was gathered until
today, there is no proof that antennas cause cancer.
In the health professions there is an
exposure to many substances that can cause cancer, in addition they
are exposed to diseases which can weaken
the immune system".
According to Dr. Avi Rotshild, a
department manager, who got cancer, it is a coincidence:"I would never
come back to work
in a floor that will endanger my health,
and I gladly returned to work at the department after my recovery.
I served in the Kishon and it is
impossible to know where the cancer came from"
Dr. Rotschild told that nurses and doctors
who worked at his department came to him: "I have total belief that it
is a very weird coincidence and each member of the team who came to me
received all possible information"
Within 3 weeks the hospital workers will
gather for a team meeting.
The workers are very afraid but according
to Renart, "even if there will be found an excess of morbidity,
relatively than the expected in the
population, it is possible that the investigation will end in with dead
end,
as happens many times".
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