Following the call by Wolfram König, President of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
(Federal Agency for radiation protection), to all doctors of medicine to collaborate
actively in the assessment of the risk posed by cellular radiation, the aim of our study
was to examine whether people living close to cellular transmitter antennas were
exposed to a heightened risk of taking ill with malignant tumors.
The basis of the data used for the survey were PC fi1es of the case histories of patients
between the years 1994 and 2004. While adhering to data protection, the personal data
of almost 1.000 patients were evaluated for this study, which was completed without
any external financial support. It is intended to continue the project in the form of a
register.
The result of the study shows that the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was
significantly higher among those patients who had lived during the past ten years at
a distance of up to 400 metres from the cellular transmitter site, which bas been in
operation since 1993, compared to those patients living further away, and that the
patients fell ill on average 8 years earlier.
In the years 1999-2004, i.e. after five years’ operation of the transmitting installation, the
relative risk of getting cancer had trebled for the residents of the area in the
proximity of the installation compared to the inhabitants of Naila outside the area.