Mobile phones cause 'five-fold increase in brain cancer risk'
By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent
30 Jun 2011
People who started using mobile as teenagers and have been doing so for more than a decade are at a five-fold risk of developing a common type of brain cancer, new evidence indicates...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8606104/Mobile-phones-cause-five-fold-increase-in-brain-cancer-risk.html
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
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Swerdlow is the head of the Epidemiology standing committee of the ICNIRP, I think Ahlbom was the former head. Ahlbom is not in this committee anymore but he is 'only' a consultant expert to the ICNIRP http://www.icnirp.org . So Mona Nilsson brought a new order with a chain reaction. In Swerdlow s area of expertise are studies 'investigating the aetiology of specific malignancies and several investigating the long-term risks of cancer in people who have had particular diseases and/or received potentially carcinogenic treatments.'
http://www.icr.ac.uk/research/team_leaders/Swerdlow_Anthony/index.shtml
Press item on his latest paper:
Evidence 'increasingly against' phone cancer risk
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-cancer-phones-idUSTRE7606GX20110701
Swerdlow IS the new Ahlbom
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1103693
'AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] holds shares in the telecoms companies Cable and Wireless Worldwide and Cable and Wireless Communications. His wife holds shares in the BT group, a global telecommunications services company'.
I was asked by several people where the conflict of Swerdlow is written in the paper. For those who maybe wonder about it but don t ask: Scroll down here to the red letters and see:
Mobile Phones, Brain Tumours and the Interphone Study
Where Are We Now?
Anthony J. Swerdlow1, Maria Feychting2, Adele C Green3, Leeka Kheifets4, David A Savitz5 (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection Standing Committee on Epidemiology)
1Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK;
2Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden;
3Cancer and Population Studies Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research,
Brisbane, Australia & School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;
4Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA;
5Departments of Community Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Brown University, Providence, USA.
Correspondence to: Anthony Swerdlow, Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK. (Telephone: +442087224012; fax: +44 2087224019; email: anthony.swerdlow@icr.ac.uk)
Running title: Mobile Phones and Brain Tumour Risk
Key words: Brain cancer, cancer and radiation, epidemiology.
Acknowledgements. We thank Sharon Squires for secretarial help. This report was prepared under the auspices of the International Commission for Non-Ionizing
Page 1 of 21
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Radiation Protection. The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital acknowledge funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. Adele Green is partly supported by a Fellowship from the Australian Medical Research Council (No. 89912).
Conflict of Interest Statement
Funding for research undertaken by MF [=Maria Feychting] and AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] has been provided by a number of sources, including the European Fifth Framework Program; the International Union against Cancer, which receives funds from the Mobile Manufacturers' Forum and the GSM Association; the Mobile Telecommunications Health and Research Programme; the Swedish Research Council; AFA Insurance; and VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). VINNOVA received funds from TeliaSonera, EricssonAB, and Telenor. All funds from commercial sources were via firewalls. The authors certify that their freedom to design, conduct, interpret, and publish research was not compromised by any controlling sponsor. AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] holds shares in the telecoms companies Cable and Wireless Worldwide and Cable and Wireless Communications. AJS' wife holds shares in the BT group, a global telecommunications services company. MF [Maria Feychting], ACG, [Adele C Green] and AJS [Swerdlow] are members of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, an independent body setting guidelines for non-ionizing radiation protection. MF [=Maria Feychting] and AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] serve as advisors to a number of public advisory and research steering groups concerning the potential health effects of exposure to non-ionizing radiation.
Iris Atzmon
----- Original Message -----
From: John Weigel
To: editor@examiner.ie
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:24 PM
Subject: Swerdlow conflict of interests statement
Editor,
The following is evidence of conflict of interest by A. J. Swerdlow, the man you quoted extensively saying microwaves/cell phones are safe based on ICNIRP guidelines.
In the interest of fair journalism, it is incumbent upon you to: 1) correct your earlier error, and 2) to cite Thomas Crosbie Holdings' interests in digital communications.
What is your understanding of the reliability of Swerdlow s coments?
This is our second e-mail to you regarding this matter.
Con Colbert
Pauline Keeley
Jim Ronan
John Weigel
The Alliance for Irish Radiation Protection
Informant: Iris Atzmon
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I have written an article titled 'Cell Phone Brain Tumors/Cigarette Industry and You'.The International Commission Can t Say if there is a Link, by Greenall on the Allvoices net mag. http://www.allvoices.com . In the article I point out how there could be simple experiments to demonstrate how brain tumours could be caused under controlled conditons.You may find it useful. If you do could you ask people to respond by using the official White House website and email Pres. Obama and ask him to respond to the issues raised on the website http://www.cancerfraudbadbiotech.com. I have taken a severe pounding by my stand for honesty in reseach and would appreciate any help possible.I believe my small request should not hurt anyone.
E.A.Greenhalgh.
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Tumour victim fails to halt phone mast
Essex County Standard
By Adam Cornell
A MAN fears his brain tumour could grow after a council gave permission for a mobile phone mast near his home. The homeowner, who asked not to be named because his family, friends and neighbours do not know the extent of his tumour,...
http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/9120268.Tumour_victim_fails_to_halt_phone_mast/
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ICNIRP s cavalry to the rescue
http://emfacts.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fde0125885d9f7d82a3668e7d&id=695e3fe356&e=50655bac52
Anthony Swerdlows share portfolio (or business as usual at ICNIRP)
http://emfacts.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fde0125885d9f7d82a3668e7d&id=d2251648af&e=50655bac52
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Environmental Health Trust Cites Conflict of Interest Surrounding New Published Study
The positions taken in this ICNRP review cannot easily be separated from the heavy industry funding for the work, which included direct financial support from the Mobile Manufacturers? Forum, The GSM Association, the Mobile Telecommunications Health and Research Programme, AFA Insurance, VINNOA (the Swedish government agency for innovation, which received funds from TeliaSonera, EricssonAB, and Telenor...
http://www.cisionwire.com/the-investor-relations-group/r/environmental-health-trust-cites-conflict-of-interest-surrounding-new-published-study,c9142949
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Did INTERPHONE commit scientific misconduct?
http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/%e2%80%a2did-interphone-commit-scientific-misconduct/
Did INTERPHONE commit ? ?
http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/%E2%80%A2did-interphone-commit-2/
More about the theme:
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwaves
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=non-ionizing
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=non-ionizing
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=phone+mast
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=phone+mast
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=exposure
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=exposure
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=guidelines
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=guidelines
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=health+effect
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=health+effect
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=carcinogen
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=carcinogen
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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=cigarettes
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Colchester
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Environmental+Health+Trust
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Interphone
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Interphone
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=ICNIRP
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=ICNIRP
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Anders+Ahlbom
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Anders+Ahlbom
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Swerdlow
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Swerdlow
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Maria+Feychting
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Maria+Feychting
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Leeka+Kheifets
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leeka+Kheifets
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Leszczynski
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leszczynski
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=World+Health+Organi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=World+Health+Organi
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Mona+Nilsson
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mona+Nilsson
30 Jun 2011
People who started using mobile as teenagers and have been doing so for more than a decade are at a five-fold risk of developing a common type of brain cancer, new evidence indicates...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8606104/Mobile-phones-cause-five-fold-increase-in-brain-cancer-risk.html
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
--------
Swerdlow is the head of the Epidemiology standing committee of the ICNIRP, I think Ahlbom was the former head. Ahlbom is not in this committee anymore but he is 'only' a consultant expert to the ICNIRP http://www.icnirp.org . So Mona Nilsson brought a new order with a chain reaction. In Swerdlow s area of expertise are studies 'investigating the aetiology of specific malignancies and several investigating the long-term risks of cancer in people who have had particular diseases and/or received potentially carcinogenic treatments.'
http://www.icr.ac.uk/research/team_leaders/Swerdlow_Anthony/index.shtml
Press item on his latest paper:
Evidence 'increasingly against' phone cancer risk
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-cancer-phones-idUSTRE7606GX20110701
Swerdlow IS the new Ahlbom
http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.1103693
'AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] holds shares in the telecoms companies Cable and Wireless Worldwide and Cable and Wireless Communications. His wife holds shares in the BT group, a global telecommunications services company'.
I was asked by several people where the conflict of Swerdlow is written in the paper. For those who maybe wonder about it but don t ask: Scroll down here to the red letters and see:
Mobile Phones, Brain Tumours and the Interphone Study
Where Are We Now?
Anthony J. Swerdlow1, Maria Feychting2, Adele C Green3, Leeka Kheifets4, David A Savitz5 (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection Standing Committee on Epidemiology)
1Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK;
2Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden;
3Cancer and Population Studies Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research,
Brisbane, Australia & School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;
4Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA;
5Departments of Community Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Brown University, Providence, USA.
Correspondence to: Anthony Swerdlow, Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK. (Telephone: +442087224012; fax: +44 2087224019; email: anthony.swerdlow@icr.ac.uk)
Running title: Mobile Phones and Brain Tumour Risk
Key words: Brain cancer, cancer and radiation, epidemiology.
Acknowledgements. We thank Sharon Squires for secretarial help. This report was prepared under the auspices of the International Commission for Non-Ionizing
Page 1 of 21
2
Radiation Protection. The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital acknowledge funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. Adele Green is partly supported by a Fellowship from the Australian Medical Research Council (No. 89912).
Conflict of Interest Statement
Funding for research undertaken by MF [=Maria Feychting] and AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] has been provided by a number of sources, including the European Fifth Framework Program; the International Union against Cancer, which receives funds from the Mobile Manufacturers' Forum and the GSM Association; the Mobile Telecommunications Health and Research Programme; the Swedish Research Council; AFA Insurance; and VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems). VINNOVA received funds from TeliaSonera, EricssonAB, and Telenor. All funds from commercial sources were via firewalls. The authors certify that their freedom to design, conduct, interpret, and publish research was not compromised by any controlling sponsor. AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] holds shares in the telecoms companies Cable and Wireless Worldwide and Cable and Wireless Communications. AJS' wife holds shares in the BT group, a global telecommunications services company. MF [Maria Feychting], ACG, [Adele C Green] and AJS [Swerdlow] are members of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, an independent body setting guidelines for non-ionizing radiation protection. MF [=Maria Feychting] and AJS [=Anthony J Swerdlow] serve as advisors to a number of public advisory and research steering groups concerning the potential health effects of exposure to non-ionizing radiation.
Iris Atzmon
----- Original Message -----
From: John Weigel
To: editor@examiner.ie
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:24 PM
Subject: Swerdlow conflict of interests statement
Editor,
The following is evidence of conflict of interest by A. J. Swerdlow, the man you quoted extensively saying microwaves/cell phones are safe based on ICNIRP guidelines.
In the interest of fair journalism, it is incumbent upon you to: 1) correct your earlier error, and 2) to cite Thomas Crosbie Holdings' interests in digital communications.
What is your understanding of the reliability of Swerdlow s coments?
This is our second e-mail to you regarding this matter.
Con Colbert
Pauline Keeley
Jim Ronan
John Weigel
The Alliance for Irish Radiation Protection
Informant: Iris Atzmon
--------
I have written an article titled 'Cell Phone Brain Tumors/Cigarette Industry and You'.The International Commission Can t Say if there is a Link, by Greenall on the Allvoices net mag. http://www.allvoices.com . In the article I point out how there could be simple experiments to demonstrate how brain tumours could be caused under controlled conditons.You may find it useful. If you do could you ask people to respond by using the official White House website and email Pres. Obama and ask him to respond to the issues raised on the website http://www.cancerfraudbadbiotech.com. I have taken a severe pounding by my stand for honesty in reseach and would appreciate any help possible.I believe my small request should not hurt anyone.
E.A.Greenhalgh.
--------
Tumour victim fails to halt phone mast
Essex County Standard
By Adam Cornell
A MAN fears his brain tumour could grow after a council gave permission for a mobile phone mast near his home. The homeowner, who asked not to be named because his family, friends and neighbours do not know the extent of his tumour,...
http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/9120268.Tumour_victim_fails_to_halt_phone_mast/
--------
ICNIRP s cavalry to the rescue
http://emfacts.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fde0125885d9f7d82a3668e7d&id=695e3fe356&e=50655bac52
Anthony Swerdlows share portfolio (or business as usual at ICNIRP)
http://emfacts.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fde0125885d9f7d82a3668e7d&id=d2251648af&e=50655bac52
--------
Environmental Health Trust Cites Conflict of Interest Surrounding New Published Study
The positions taken in this ICNRP review cannot easily be separated from the heavy industry funding for the work, which included direct financial support from the Mobile Manufacturers? Forum, The GSM Association, the Mobile Telecommunications Health and Research Programme, AFA Insurance, VINNOA (the Swedish government agency for innovation, which received funds from TeliaSonera, EricssonAB, and Telenor...
http://www.cisionwire.com/the-investor-relations-group/r/environmental-health-trust-cites-conflict-of-interest-surrounding-new-published-study,c9142949
--------
Did INTERPHONE commit scientific misconduct?
http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/%e2%80%a2did-interphone-commit-scientific-misconduct/
Did INTERPHONE commit ? ?
http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/%E2%80%A2did-interphone-commit-2/
More about the theme:
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwaves
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=non-ionizing
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=non-ionizing
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=phone+mast
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=phone+mast
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=exposure
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=exposure
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=guidelines
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=guidelines
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=health+effect
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http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=ICNIRP
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http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Swerdlow
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Swerdlow
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Maria+Feychting
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Maria+Feychting
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Leeka+Kheifets
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leeka+Kheifets
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Leszczynski
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Leszczynski
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=World+Health+Organi
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=World+Health+Organi
http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/search?q=Mona+Nilsson
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Mona+Nilsson
Starmail - 4. Jul, 06:15
