ICNIRP: ''Het valt allemaal wel mee met het kankerrisico bij mobieltjes''. (Upd. met toevoeging)

Geplaatst 7 juli 2011
Update met toegevoegde hyperlink (Swerdlow) 10 juli 2011

Mobile Phones, Brain Tumours and the Interphone Study: Where Are We Now?

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Formal Correction: This article has been formally corrected to address the following errors.

Voor uitstekende Engelstalige commentaren op dit industrievriendelijke ICNIRP artikel dat grenst aan wetenschapsfraude verwijzen wij u naar de volgende competente commentatoren, de redactie van Stopumts heeft daar niets aan toe te voegen:

www.microwavenews.com/ICNIRP.Interphone.html . (Dr. Louis Slesin)
www.emfacts.com/2011/07/icnirps-cavalry-to-the-rescue/ . (Dr. Don Maisch)
www.betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/•did-interphone-commit-scientific-misconduct/ . (Prof. Dariusz Leszczynski)

(ICNIRP is de instantie die de overheden geadviseerd heeft bij de invoering van de veel te hoge emissienormen voor draadloze technologie. De secretaris van de Cie. EMV van de Nederlandse Gezondheidsraad is lid van de ICNIRP. ZIe ook de berichtgeving over aangetoonde belangenverstrengeling bij de lead-author of onderstaande studie, Anthony Swerdlow.

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Abstract

Anthony J. Swerdlow, Maria Feychting, Adele C. Green, Leeka Kheifets, David A. Savitz,

ICNIRP, International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
Standing Committee on Epidemiology

Background:
In the past 15 years, mobile phone use has evolved from an uncommon activity to one with over 4.6 billion subscriptions worldwide. There is, however, public concern about the possibility that mobile phones might cause cancer, especially brain tumours.

Objectives:
To review the evidence on whether mobile phone use raises risk of the main types of brain tumour, glioma and meningioma, with a particular focus on the recent publication of the largest epidemiological study yet – the 13-country Interphone Study.

Discussion:
Methodological deficits limit the conclusions that can be drawn from Interphone, but its results, along with those from other epidemiological, biological and animal studies, and brain tumour incidence trends, suggest that within about 10-15 years after first use of mobile phones there is unlikely to be a material increase in the risk of brain tumours in adults. Data for childhood tumours and for periods beyond 15 years are currently lacking.

Conclusions:
Although there remains some uncertainty, the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile phone use can cause brain tumours in adults.



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