[ RadSafe ] Mobile phones=countryside danger (source: Swedish cancer alarms record holder)

[Bjorn Cedervall]

FYI & my personal action only,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers at hotmail.com
PS. Same guy as the one who created another Chernobyl alarm half a year ago.
Even TV sets are carcinogenic according to his ideas.
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>OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
>Mobile phone users in rural areas may be at greater risk of brain tumours

>[Use of cellular telephones and brain tumour risk in urban and rural
>areas Occup Environ Med 2005; 62: 390-4]

>Using a mobile phone in rural areas seems to pose a greater risk of
>developing brain tumours than it does in urban areas, suggests a
>Swedish study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

>The findings are based on a sample of over 1400 adults aged between
>20 and 80, living in the centre of Sweden. All of them had been
>diagnosed with a malignant or benign brain tumour between January
>1997 and June 2000.

>The group were compared with a similar number of healthy adults,
>matched for age and sex, and living in the same geographical area.

>Daily mobile and cordless phone use was assessed, via questionnaire,
>which included a complete employment history.

>How long users spent on the phone had little impact on the
>probability of being diagnosed with a brain tumour. But where they
>lived did make a difference for all phone types, and especially for
>mobile digital phones.

>Residents of rural areas, who had been using a mobile digital phone
>for more than three years, were over three times as likely to be
>diagnosed with a brain tumour as those living in urban areas.

>And digital mobile phone use for five years or more in a rural area
>quadrupled the risk compared with residency in urban areas.

>For malignant brain tumours, the risk was eight times as high for
>those living in a rural area, but the numbers were small, caution the
>authors. No such effect was seen for analogue or cordless phones.

>The authors reiterate that there is a difference in power output
>between mobile phones in urban and rural areas. This is because base
>stations tend to be much further apart in rural areas, requiring a
>higher signal intensity to compensate.

>The compensatory system, known as the adaptive power control or APC,
>is used for mobile phone (GSM) networks.

>Contact:
>Professor Lennart Hardell, Department of Oncology, University
>Hospital,
>Orebro, Sweden.
>Tel: +46 19 602 1000
>Email: lennart.hardell at orebroll.se

>Click here to view the paper in full:
>http://press.psprings.co.uk/oem/june/390_om17434.pdf