The result of this retrospective study in Naila shows
that the risk of newly developing cancer was three
times higher among those patients who had lived during
past ten years (1994-2004), within a distance of 400m
from the cellular transmitter, in comparison to those
who had lived further away.
Cross-sectional studies can be used to provide the
decisive empirical information to identify real
problems. In the 1960s just three observations of birth
deformities were enough to uncover what is today an
academically indisputable Thalidomide problem.
This study, which was completed without any external
financial support is a pilot project. Measurements of
individual exposure as well as the focused search for
further side effects would provide a useful extension to
this work, however such research would need the
appropriate financial support.
The concept of this study is simple and can be used
everywhere, where there it a long-term electromagnetic
radiation from a transmitting station.
The results presented are a first concrete epidemiological
sign of a temporal and spatial connection
between exposure to GSM base station radiation and
cancer disease.
These results are, according to the literature relating
to high frequency electromagnetic fields, not only
plausible and possible, but also likely.
From both an ethical and legal standpoint it is
necessary to immediately start to monitor the health of
the residents living in areas of high radio frequency
emissions from mobile telephone base stations with
epidemiological studies. This is necessary because this
study has shown that it is no longer safely possible to
assume that there is no causal link between radio
frequency transmissions and increased cancer rates.
Acknowledgements
Our thanks go to all those involved in developing this
study, in particular, Herrn Professor Frentzel-Beyme
for his advice on all the epidemiological questions.