Cancers
2018 U.S. National Toxicology Program & Italian Study Confirm Cell Phones and Cell Towers Cause Cancer
See the NTP website which indicates radiofrequency radiation is associated with "Clear evidence of tumors" -- the highest warning they can issue:
In the following article, study designer and former NTP Senior Scientist Ronald L. Melnick, PhD., counters with facts the industry spin intended to downplay the NTP study findings:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118304973?via=ihub
In January 2020 the National Institutes of Environmental Health (NIEHS) published the following article from NTP scientist Michael Wyde, Ph.D., confirming brain, heart and adrenal tumors and that more research is underway to understand the impact of adding 5G millimeter waves to the existing exposures from 2G, 3G and 4G radiation:
https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2020/1/community-impact/5g-technology/index.htm
See study findings by the Ramazzini Intstitute study in Italy, which corroborates the NTP study findings:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300367?via%3Dihub
The European Union has commissioned the largest ever 14-country epidemiological study on the Risk of brain cancer from exposure to radiofrequency fields in childhood and adolescence. It is referred to as theMOBI-KIDS study. The following provides information, and the final report with conclusions and recommendations is due out soon:
Longtime World Health Organization advisor Anthony B. Miller, M.D., and other experts, confirm radiofrequency (RF) radiation from any source now fully meets the World Health Organization criteria to be classified as a “Group 1 carcinogenic to humans” agent:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118303475?via%3Dihub
BioMed Research International published a peer-reviewed study by Michael Carlberg, MSc, and Lennart Hardell, M.D., Ph.D. concluding "RF radiation should be regarded as a human carcinogen causing glioma."
In 2018 IEEE Microwave Magazine published, "Clear Evidence of Cell Phone RF Radiation Cancer Risk" by Dr. James Lin:
Dr. Lin's article is also available in full here:
2020 meta-analysis study: "In sum, the updated comprehensive meta-analysis of case-control studies found significant evidence linking cellular phone use to increased tumor risk, especially among cell phone users with cumulative cell phone use of 1000 or more hours in their lifetime (which corresponds to about 17 min per day over 10 years), and especially among studies that employed high quality methods."
Cancer Prevalence on the Rise
See Arthur Firstenberg's prevalance data:
cellphonetaskforce.org/humans-bees-and-wildlife-in-2023/Schools are reporting clusters of formerly rare cancers among children and staff; note, the science shows RF can directly cause cancer and it can also be a co-carcinogen, causing existing cancers to grow more rapidly as may be the case at Weston Elementary School in Ripon, CA if it is found that the contaminated soil is also a co-carcinogen. Eight students and teachers have cancer to date:
https://fox40.com/2019/04/03/ripon-parents-continue-to-fight-to-uncover-cause-of-childrens-cancer/
The fifth student in Cannon-McMillan School District in Washington, PA has been diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma:
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/03/25/ewings-sarcoma-cancer-cluster-washington-county/
Four students in the same graduation class of 2019 have been diagnosed with cancer, plus two others, and there are cell towers on the roof of Rocky Mountain High School in Colorado:
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/03/04/rocky-mountain-high-students-cancer/
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported increases in brain, kidney, liver and thyroid cancers among US children (under age 20):
India is reporting an increase in brain tumors, including among children:
http://www.asianage.com/metros/delhi/100717/brain-tumour-among-children-on-the-rise-in-india.html
The incidence of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the deadliest type of brain tumor, more than doubled in England between 1995 and 2015:
In the U.S. the American Cancer Society reports a sharp rise in colon cancer and rectal cancer among young adults:
This study indicates a fourfold increase in rectal cancer:
Military pilots are also seeing an increase in cancers from the sun's ionizing radiation,the interior of the plane's non-ionizing man-made radiation exposures, and the radar used for weaponry:
DARPA is also investigating the neurological impact of EMFs on military and commercial pilots:
More on the NTP and Ramazzini Studies
In 2016 the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) released partial findings in a $25 million study indicating cell phone radiation causes cancer:
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/update/2016/6/cellphones/index.html
The NTP held a press conference to inform the public on this:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2016/may27/
At the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Ronald L Melnick, PhD, the toxicologist who designed the NTP study, now retired, was joined by Devra Davis PhD MPH, to discuss the study findings that cell phone radiation-exposed animals had increased brain and heart tumors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3_Qdv1hFE&feature=youtu.be&t=11m2s
Following is the NTP Toxicology and Carcinogenicity Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation PowerPoint presentation given by Michael Wyde, PhD, DABT National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on June 8, 2016 at the BioEM2016 Meeting, Ghent, Belgium:
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/research/areas/cellphone/slides_bioem_wyde.pdf
Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D., Director, Center for Family and Community Health, University of California, Berkeley provides a sheet for sifting through the factual reporting vs. industry spin on the NTP report:
In 2018 the NTP released the rest of the study findings and the review panel ruled cell phone radiation is carcinogenic. See the details below, including the submitted comments from scientists and public health organizations:
The American Cancer Society in 2016 called the NTP study paradigm-shifting good science:
Researchers with the renowned Ramazzini Institute (RI) in Italy also found in a large-scale lifetime study of lab animals exposed to environmental levels of cell tower radiation developed cancer. See press release below:
Industry Suppression of Harm
Microwave News provides information on how industry and military conflicts of interest have suppressed evidence of harm from wireless radiation and appear to be doing so with the NTP study as well:
The Nation magazine published a 2018 investigative report on how big wireless has kept cancer information from the public for decades:
National Public Radio (NPR) On Point aired a national program following the above article's release:
https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/04/05/cell-phones-cancer-connection
The above article from The Nation also prompted a two-part report from Democracy Now:
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/5/how_the_wireless_industry_convinced_the
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/5/how_big_wireless_war_gamed_the
History of World Health Organization and EMFs
In 2011, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified wi-fi as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Please see the attached WHO PowerPoint (REF_Poster2012.ppt) summarizing their Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields: evaluation of cancer hazards. Note the findings for children:
"For children – compared with adults – the average deposition of RF-energy from a mobile phone can be up to 2-fold higher in the brain and up to 10-fold higher in the bone marrow of the skull."
Cancer can take many years to develop, and even longer for medical studies to be done. At the time of the studies reflected in the WHO report, personal wi-fi devices were not yet a consideration so the studies centered around cordless telephones, mobile telephones (cell phones), and Bluetooth. That’s why we see more about cell phone impact than wi-fi in the earlier studies, but the wi-fi studies are beginning to come out now too. The WHO recognized this need for more research so they elevated radiofrequency electromagnetic fields to possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B) and commissioned studies that are underway around the world today.
Since research takes time, it may be a while before the WHO reclassifies EMFs from "Group 2B Possibly carcinogenic to humans" to "Group 2A Probably carcinogenic to humans" or "Group 1 Carcinogenic to humans". They apply extremely rigorous standards when making these classifications (see IARC Monographs Preamble). It is important to note that the WHO found enough compelling research that they could no longer label EMFs in the lower classifications of "Group 3 Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans" or "Group 4 Probably not carcinogenic to humans".
If you hear someone say electromagnetic radiation is in the same category as coffee and pickled vegetables, please know that is likely the passing along of industry spin. There was a certain Asian population that was susceptible to cancer from the formaldehyde in a certain kind of pickled vegetables so pickled vegetables did belong on the list of possible human carcinogens. With coffee, it was the chemicals used in the growing process. The science continued and coffee has since been removed from the list. The list of 2B agents also contains lead, thalidomide, gasoline, engine exhaust and diesel along with hundreds of other toxic chemicals. We have safety precautions in place for those, but none yet for wireless radiation and so we continue to bathe our population in it.
As the Environmental Health Trust reports, "Dr. Hardell is an International Agency for the Research on Cancer expert and now states that wireless “should be regarded as human carcinogen requiring urgent revision of current exposure guidelines.”
Read his 2014 research published in the Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health entitled Decreased Survival of Glioma Patients with Astrocytoma Grade IV (Glioblastoma Multiforme) Associated with Long-Term Use of Mobile and Cordless Phones which determined the use of wireless phones in the >20 years latency group (time since first use) was correlated to decreased survival for those diagnosed with astrocytoma grade IV. The conclusion reads, “Due to the relationship with survival the classification of IARC is strengthened and RF-EMF should be regarded as human carcinogen requiring urgent revision of current exposure guidelines.”
Longtime World Health Organization advisor Anthony B. Miller, M.D., confirm in 2017 radiofrequency (RF) radiation from any source now fully meets the criteria to be classified as a “Group 1 carcinogenic to humans” agent:
In 2018, following the NTP and Ramazzini findings, to prioritize potential adverse health outcomes, WHO conducted a broad international survey in 2018. Ten major topics were identified for which WHO will now commission systematic reviews in 2020 to analyze and synthesize the available evidence:
web.archive.org/web/20200514165110/https:/www.who.int/peh-emf/research/rf_ehc_page/en/index1.html
Conflicts of Interest at the World Health Organization
Note, as with many of our public health organizations, there is evidence of heavy industry influence at the WHO. Some of the original committee members believe there is enough evidence now to give electromagnetic radiation a higher carcinogenicity classification. In 2016 the authors of the BioInitiative Report, which summarizes thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing wireless technology is harmful, submitted a No-Confidence letter to the WHO's EMF program manager because the committee no longer includes appropriate representation from non-industry funded EMF scientific experts: http://www.bioinitiative.org/bioinitiative-working-group-issues-a-no-confidence-letter-to-the-who-emf-program-manager/.
The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection issued a similar letter in March 2017.
Over 200 of the world's leading EMF scientists and biologists bravely signed a formal appeal to the World Health Organization in 2015 with a clear plan to inform and protect the public from wireless radiation. The WHO has not responded. Columbia University's Dr. Martin Blank provides a three-minute introduction to the Appeal we should all hear: https://vimeo.com/123468632
The head of the WHO's International EMF Project has heavy ties to the telecom industry. Further, she does not have EMF scientific or medical credentials and is not listening to the scientists proving electromagnetic fields are hazardous. A former UN employee, Olga Sheean of Canada, submitted a petition to get qualified leadership in place: http://olgasheean.com/who-emf/.
In 2017, the International Journal of Oncology published a report by Dr. Lennart Hardell explaining the WHO has conflicts of interest with industry and does not plan to take action to protect the public from non-thermal electromagnetic radiation, even though the scientific and epidemiological evidence of harm is well documented:
https://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/ijo.2017.4046
BioInitiative Report
The WHO announced their classification in 2011, and the 2012 BioInitiative Report came out in January 2013. The report cites many studies done in the prior six years, for cancer and other serious health concerns from EMFs. Feel free to look up the individual studies included in the report.
Additional Studies
A quick Google search returns additional studies that have been released since the 2012 BioInitiative Report:
U.S. National Library of Medicine | National Institutes of Health: Using the Hill viewpoints from 1965 for evaluating strengths of evidence of the risk for brain tumors associated with use of mobile and cordless phones, Hardell L., Carlberg M. conclude: "Based on the Hill criteria, glioma and acoustic neuroma should be considered to be caused by RF-EMF emissions from wireless phones and regarded as carcinogenic to humans, classifying it as group 1 according to the IARC classification. Current guidelines for exposure need to be urgently revised."
The following study indicates brain tumors are on the rise in the U.S. among adolescents and young adults:
2013 National Institutes of Health: Electromagnetic field exposure and male breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 18 studies:
CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis suggests that EMF exposure may be associated with the increase risk of male breast cancer despite the arguments raised.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23534787
2013 Low levels of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and cancer cell proliferation in vivo:
http://meetinglibrary.asco.org/content/114037-132
The following study evaluates breast cancer from EMFs. It is followed by two videos of young women and men dealing with this type of cancer from keeping their cell phones in their bras and shirt pockets:
In the attached presentation, Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Health Risk: A Scientific Perspective, Martin Blank, Ph.D., Columbia University, indicates among other findings that EMFs are overriding Tamoxifen and breast cancer cells continue to grow.
Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, authored, "Brain Tumor Rates Are Rising in the US: The Role of Cell Phone & Cordless Phone Use":
http://www.saferemr.com/2015/05/brain-tumor-rates-are-rising-in-us-role.html
In 2015, Dr. Martin Blank, now representing 220 scientists worldwide, made an international appeal to the United Nations and the World Health Organization calling for Protection from Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Field Exposure. Dr. Blank provides a three-minute video introduction to the Advisory:
The two-page Advisory is provided in full below, along with scientists from countries around the world:
Note: The information provided here is publicly available on the Internet.
It is intended to provide a starting point to inform you of EMF dangers.
Please do your own research, draw your own conclusions, and act accordingly to protect those you love.