From Cindy Sage (as posted on the cheemf list):

A landmark paper by Igor Belayev’s team at Stockholm University has
reported that very low intensity microwave radiation from mobile phones
inhibits DNA repair processes in human stem cells.

By placing a mobile phone at one meter distance from human stem cells
in petri dishes (SAR = 0.037 W/Kg), they found a significant reduction in
53BP1 foci. These foci are a measure of DNA repair in cells with double
strand DNA damage. The damage was greater to stem cells (derived from adipose
tissue in humans) than in fibroblasts (differentiated cells). Stem cells did not
adapt over time - and the damage was done within one hour of MW exposure.
Fibroblast cells were similarly affected (inhibited 52BP1 foci) but adapted over time.

The effects are carrier-frequency dependent. The effects occurred with GSM
exposure at 915 MHz, but not at 905 MHz. The failure to produce DNA repair
also occurred at the mobile phone UTMS carrier frequency of 1947 MHz.

Analysis of 53BP1 foci is the most sensitive technique to measure double-strand
DNA breaks in both unexposed cells and in cells exposued to cytotoxic agents.

In the authors’ words, “this represents a direct mechanistic link to epidemiological
data showing an association of MW exposure with increased cancer risk.” The
date obtained from human stem cells is of “utmost relevance for assessment
of possible health risks of MW exposure from mobile phones.” Most, if not all
adult tissues and organs including blood, skin and brain contain stem cells.
Therefore, “stem cells like blood cells and fibroblasts are always subjected to
exposure from mobile phones.”

With respect to children, because “almost all organs and tissues possess stem cells and stem
cells are more active in children, the possible relationship of chronic MW exposure and
various types of tumors and leukemia especially in children should be investigated.”

Perhaps this accounts for the Hardell et al data that report children are more at risk
from mobile phone use than adults, where the risk of glioma is more than 5-fold in
children but just more than 2-fold in adults.

Submitted by Cindy Sage

Markova E Malmgren LOG Belyaev IY. Microwaves from mobile phones inhibit 53PB1 focus
formation in human stem cells stronger than in differentiated cells: Possible mechanistic
link to cancer risk. Environmental Health Perspectives On-line 22 October 2009.
doi:10.1289/ehp.0900781

From Louis Slesin, Microwave News:

Why don’t the rules governing conflicts of
interest ever apply to EMFs?

See the latest example from a new report issued
by the International Risk Governance Council.

Read all about it at:
http://www.microwavenews.com

Best,
Louis Slesin

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Dr. Wright, Australia’s most known media medical commentator has joined the growing list of Australian doctors who have publically expressed concern over the possible link between mobile phone use and brain tumours. The following is from Dr Wright’s February 7, 2010 question and answer segment, published in the Sunday Tasmanian.

Mobile phone menace
CAN mobile phones lead to brain cancers?
My personal view is yes, however the jury is still out. We’ll know for sure in about 15 years, when a few hundred thousand more perish from this horrible disease.
Electro-magnetic waves emanating from a source so close to the brain must have a negative impact.
If you are a high-volume user, at least use brands where the transmitter is away from your head. Australians are among the world’s highest users of mobiles.

Visit Dr. Wright’s web page at www.docwright.com.au or email him at docwright@macf.org.au

From AlterNet:

http://www.alternet.org/environment/145562/could_your_cell_phone_
end_up_killing_you

A new debate is raging over whether prolonged cell phone use poses serious health side effects.
February 5, 2010 |

Exerpt:

In the debate over cell phones, there doesn’t appear to be any consensus on what, exactly, the harmful health effects on cell phone users may be. Unfortunately, the scary truth is that no one knows the full extent of problems caused by these must-have consumer electronics, because they’ve only become ubiquitous in recent years.

Nevertheless, at least one group of people who has been using cell phones longer than the rest of us has started to draw some connections.

In an extensive piece on cell phone health hazards in this month’s issue of GQ [See EMFacts message #1205], a 35-year-old investment banker who five years ago was diagnosed with a brain tumor just behind his right ear — where he presses his phone — said that his industry has, “been using cell phones since 1992, back when they were the Gordon-Gekko-on-the-beach-kind-of-phone.” The banker said four or five colleagues at his firm also have similar tumors.

Go to link for full article with links to other associated articles

From Alex Swinkels, the National Platform on Radiation Risks:

1) Progressive stages in world-wide knowledge development regarding
Electromagnetic Fields & Health

With this paper the Dutch National Platform on Radiation Risks aims to
improve public awareness of the successive stages of development of
knowledge about the domain of EMF&H which have occurred in recent decades.
http://www.stralingsrisicos.nl/images/pdf/Stages_EMF-H.pdf

2) Reaction of the Dutch National Platform on Radiation risks on the draft
ICNIRP Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric and
magnetic fields (1 Hz to 100 kHz).
http://www.stralingsrisicos.nl/images/pdf/Reaction_ICNIRP_ELF.pdf

3) Research on electromagnetic fields should find a new direction
Long-term exposure, but … … no knowledge, no safety standards
Citizens and ecosystems are nowadays increasingly exposed to long-term
growth in low- and high-frequency electromagnetic fields from an ever wider
range of electrical equipment, power lines and wireless applications. The
knowledge about possible health consequences of long-term effects of such
fields is not available, or available only in a very limited way. This also
applies to the cumulative effect of these influences. In line with this, the
current standards primarily focus on the prevention of acute health effects
occurring on exposure to individual fields. As a consequence, in the current
situation, human beings and the natural world are not protected against
possible long term health effects from a cocktail of different
electromagnetic fields.
http://www.stralingsrisicos.nl/images/pdf/New_Roads_NPS%20.pdf