A new study rules out telephone antennae as a cause of increases in cases of cancer

16/02/2011

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  |  Source: CCARS

A recent epidemiological study has concluded that a significant increase in cases of cancer has not been found between persons studied and tumour locations identified. The study has been published in the Boletín Epidemiológico Semanal (Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin), which is published by the Centro Nacional de Epidemiología (National Centre for Epidemiology).

The study was conducted at the request of a number of residents in the old quarter of a town in the Madrid region. The aforementioned residents associated cases of cancer with the presence of a mobile telephone mast or base station (TM) and an electric transformer, which were close together, and which had been installed in 1990.

The tumours studied were located in the breast, the colon-rectum and the lung, and a retrospective study of cohorts was designed, with information obtained from a house-to-house survey conducted in the area of study, which encompassed the buildings adjacent to the mast and the transformer. Residents in this town had complained of an alleged increase in cancer cases among people living in the buildings close to the aforementioned devices.

Despite radio exposure levels being measured and the finding that the latter complied with current legislation, the residents demanded that an epidemiological study be carried out in order to dispel all doubts and fears regarding these installations.  The aforementioned study proves that there is no relationship with living near a transformer and a mobile telephone mast. The findings are another step forward in terms of scientific knowledge and this should help to reduce fears of the effects of electromagnetic field emissions.