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

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Figure 29: Age-specific death rates for leukaemia under the age of 30 years by sex
in England and Wales, Court-Brown and Doll (1961), with the 1911-1915
data added from their Figure 3.
Kraut et al. (1994) showed that several childhood cancers, including brain cancer,
leukaemia and lymphomas, showed a dose-response relationship to the proportion
of residential electrical wiring in Canadian Provinces, Figure 30 shows the brain
cancer graph.
Figure 30: Scatter plot of provincial brain cancer rank and average residential
hydroelectric consumption rank in the previous 6 years, Kraut et al.
(1994).
The first residential childhood cancer study, Wertheimer and Leeper (1979) found a
dose-response increase in All Cancer, dominated by Leukaemia and Brain Cancer
for children associated with EMF. There are several other studies. Hence there are
multiple studies confirming that brain cancer and leukaemia is increased in children
exposed to residential ELF fields. The biological impact of RF/MW fields is much
higher than ELF fields. This provides very strong support for the evidence that
pulsed RF/MW fields from cellphones will significantly increase the incidence of
brain cancers in cellphone users, and highly significantly in heavy cellphone users.
The biomarker cancer, ALL in very young children, is independently confirmed by
several studies. A good example is Hatch et al. (1998). They found that pregnant
women exposed to residential ELF fields had significantly higher incidence of ALL