Epidemiological principles for EMF and EMR studies - Lincoln ...

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The field strength of 1000V/m to 265mW/cm 2 , 100 V/m is equal to 2653µW/cm 2 ,
and 10V/m to 26.5µW/cm 2 .
Evidence of the Ubiquitous Genotoxic Carcinogen Effect:
The evidence that the household electric wiring, that is the source of residential
electromagnetic fields that did not exist in home prior to 1900, is a major cause of
the cancer rate rise in the 20 th century is set in context by Court-Brown and Doll
(1961). They noted that there had been a massive rise in leukaemia in a wide
range of age groups in England and Wales in the first half of 20 th -century, Figure
28.
Figure 28: Trend in leukaemia mortality with time for England and Wales for 5-year
age-groups by sex, from 1911-1959, Court-Brown and Hill (1961).
There has been a great deal of investigation and speculation about what the source
of this early childhood leukaemia mortality is caused by. It is primarily Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL). It is paralleled by significant rises in all leukaemia
mortality from the data presented, including all age-ranges up to 30 years, Figure
28.
Court-Brown and Hill were interested in a distinctly new pattern of early childhood
leukaemia death that was evident in the 1945-59 data from England and Wales but
not in the 1910-1915 data, Figure 29.