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DamianTV
03-23-2018, 06:18 AM
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/18/03/22/2333203/worlds-largest-animal-study-on-cell-tower-radiation-confirms-cancer-link


Researchers with the renowned Ramazzini Institute (RI) in Italy announce that a large-scale, lifetime study (PDF) of lab animals exposed to environmental levels of cell tower radiation developed cancer. The RI study also found increases in malignant brain (glial) tumors in female rats and precancerous conditions including Schwann cells hyperplasia in both male and female rats. A study of much higher levels of cell phone radiofrequency (RF) radiation, from the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), has also reported finding the same unusual cancer called Schwannoma of the heart in male rats treated at the highest dose.

The Ramazzini study exposed 2448 Sprague-Dawley rats from prenatal life until their natural death to "environmental" cell tower radiation for 19 hours per day (1.8 GHz GSM radiofrequency radiation (RFR) of 5, 25 and 50 V/m). RI exposures mimicked base station emissions like those from cell tower antennas, and exposure levels were far less than those used in the NTP studies of cell phone radiation. "All of the exposures used in the Ramazzini study were below the U.S. FCC limits. These are permissible exposures according the FCC. In other words, a person can legally be exposed to this level of radiation. Yet cancers occurred in these animals at these legally permitted levels. The Ramazzini findings are consistent with the NTP study demonstrating these effects are a reproducible finding," explained Ronald Melnick PhD, formerly the Senior NIH toxicologist who led the design of the NTP study on cell phone radiation now a Senior Science Advisor to Environmental Health Trust (EHT). "Governments need to strengthen regulations to protect the public from these harmful non-thermal exposures."

So this week it causes cancer again, next week, it wont, again, and the following week...

Wash, rinse, repeat.

merkelstan
03-23-2018, 06:39 AM
Would you please take the time to read PAST THE HEADLINE when it's about a scientific claim? I mean not even the paper but the ABSTRACT itself shows the clickbait headline is wrong.

"A statistically significant increase in the incidence of heart Schwannomas was observed in treated malerats at the highest dose (50 V/m)."
The increase in Heart Schwann cells hyperplasia "was NOT statistically significant"
The increase in malignant glial tumors "was NOT statistically significant"



Now what are Scwhannomas? They are tumors (abnormal cells) of which 1% become malignant.

So a more accurate headline to this study would read "Italian long-term cancer study finds no significant cancer risk from cell-phones."

(EDIT) not that i think we should expose ourselves to unneeded radiation, but we need to guage the level of risk accurately, before deciding whether it's worth modifying our behavior over.

donnay
03-23-2018, 08:13 AM
Would you please take the time to read PAST THE HEADLINE when it's about a scientific claim? I mean not even the paper but the ABSTRACT itself shows the clickbait headline is wrong.

"A statistically significant increase in the incidence of heart Schwannomas was observed in treated malerats at the highest dose (50 V/m)."
The increase in Heart Schwann cells hyperplasia "was NOT statistically significant"
The increase in malignant glial tumors "was NOT statistically significant"



Now what are Scwhannomas? They are tumors (abnormal cells) of which 1% become malignant.

So a more accurate headline to this study would read "Italian long-term cancer study finds no significant cancer risk from cell-phones."

(EDIT) not that i think we should expose ourselves to unneeded radiation, but we need to guage the level of risk accurately, before deciding whether it's worth modifying our behavior over.

This was a study on cell towers radiation.


The Ramazzini study exposed 2448 Sprague-Dawley rats from prenatal life until their natural death to "environmental" cell tower radiation for 19 hours per day (1.8 GHz GSM radiofrequency radiation (RFR) of 5, 25 and 50 V/m). RI exposures mimicked base station emissions like those from cell tower antennas, and exposure levels were far less than those used in the NTP studies of cell phone radiation. "All of the exposures used in the Ramazzini study were below the U.S. FCC limits. These are permissible exposures according the FCC. In other words, a person can legally be exposed to this level of radiation. Yet cancers occurred in these animals at these legally permitted levels

Zippyjuan
03-23-2018, 12:14 PM
A couple of issues not discussed. One is distance from the source. Exposure is inverse squared relative to distance- if you are twice as far away, you get one quarter of the dose. Four times a far- one sixteenth of the dose. In the experiment, they were very close to the source so received higher doses.

Second- cell towers do not transmit continuously. They only transmit when there is a message being sent via it- fractions of a second at a time. In the experiment, they were given constant exposures.

It only found cancer in those given the highest dose of radiation at close proximity for 19 hours a day.


reported finding the same unusual cancer called Schwannoma of the heart in male rats treated at the highest dose.


cell tower radiation for 19 hours per day