TETRA (UK police), GSM (cell phone) & Cancer
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[2009] Dirty Electricity and the Link to Cancer by Donna Fisher

[2008 Oct] West Dublin: Phone mast fears grow as more locals suffer cancer "We did a survey of 150 houses and 38 people in those houses had cancer,"

[Aug 2007] Orange to remove mobile mast from 'tower of doom', where cancer rate has soared

[2007] Cancer clusters at phone masts

Cancer Cases Dropped After Nuke Plant Closed: Important Long-term study http://ow.ly/kh5Ox

Journal articles
Cell Phone Masts---Tenfold Cancer Increase
- http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050207_tonight.asp
A 2004 study in Israel (see study), published in the International Journal of Cancer Prevention, found an increased risk of women developing cancer was 10 times higher in the group of 622 people who lived within 350 metres of a 10 metre high GSM mobile phone mast, compared with 1222 similar people who lived further away from the mast (with similar housing, lifestyles, etc). Other effects have also been reported, for example see here.

Cancer near a cell-phone transmitter station. International Journal of Cancer Prevention VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2, APRIL 2004
The study indicates an association between increased incidence of cancer and living in proximity to a cell-phone transmitter station.

Wolf R M.D., Wolf D M.D. (2004), Increase incidence of cancer near a cellphone transmitter station, International Journal of Cancer Prevention, vol. 1, nr. 2, April 2004.
    The study indicates an association between increased incidence of cancer and living in proximity to a cell-phone transmitter station.

Eger H, Hagen K U, Lucas B, Vogel P, Voit H (2004), Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz, Umwelt-Medizin-Gesellschaft, 17. Jahrgang, Ausgabe 4/2004, S. 273-356
    In the years 1999 until 2004, after five and more years of use of the phone mast, the risk of malignant blastoma for the people in the vicinity of the phone mast was three time the risk for the people living far away.

Media
[Media July 2004]
Police radio system (TETRA) led to officer's fatal cancer, family fears
[Media July 2004] Probe this cancer cluster in kids
[Media March 16 - 2003 Paris] FRANCE : CANCER CASES CAUSE ORANGE TO SUSPEND PHONE MAST OPERATION PARIS SCHOOL
[Media January 12, 2002 Madrid] Phone masts start Child Cancer scare
[Media 27/8/03 TETRA] Illness cluster raises fears over radio mast
[Media March 2001] Fresh pylon link to child cancer

When Carlo presented his findings to the US government, they included his estimations of 500,000 US citizens a year by 2010 contracting cancer and 25% of the population by 2014 as a direct result of mobile phone abuse. Wirelessfacts.co.uk believe this is a gross underestimation (see... dectphones and wireless networks).  Carlo and his family were threatened physically, his finances were threatened, one of his homes was burned down and the fire brigade suspected arson. One of the things Carlo was supposed to ratify was SAR (specific absorption rates) based on thermal effects as a method or guideline for handset safety.  This, like the ICNIRP guidelines for mobile phone mast safety, as Carlo discovered, was completely the wrong issue to look at. http://wirelessfacts.co.uk/index.html

In 2001, leading occupational medical epidemiologist Dr Sam Milham, MPH, and E. M. Ossiander, of the Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, researched the rise of electrification in the UK and USA and concluded that the childhood leukaemia peak of common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia was attributable to residential electrification: 75 per cent of all childhood acute lymphoplastic leukaemia and 60 per cent of all childhood leukaemia could be preventable.4 In 2007, Professor Michael Kundi reported that up to 80 per cent of all cases of childhood leukaemia may be caused by exposure to these fields. [2009] Dirty Electricity and the Link to Cancer by Donna Fisher

Wertheimer and Leeper were the first to see a magnetic field-breast cancer connection in their 1982 study of residential magnetic field exposures of adults.8 Even though this study looked at overall cancer risk in adults and found an increase in excess cancers of the nervous system, uterus and lymphoid tumours, "they discovered a nearly threefold increase among women younger than 55 who lived near power lines, indicating that magnetic field exposure had accelerated, development and growth of breast cancer". [2009] Dirty Electricity and the Link to Cancer by Donna Fisher

Artificially created EMR may also be the underlying menace in the tobacco smoking and asbestos crises. Hallberg and Johansson reported that exposure to radiowaves (artificially created EMR) appears to be as big a factor in causing lung cancer as cigarette smoking, and that deaths due to asbestosis were not known until after the 1960s despite the fact that asbestos had been used as a building material since the end of the 19th century. [2009] Dirty Electricity and the Link to Cancer by Donna Fisher