In
questa review ( pubblicata sull'INTERNAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY), che vede
la partecipazione di ricercatori americani e francesi, viene
ribadito con forza che la classificazione 2B come possibili cancerogeni
per le alte frequenze sia totalmente inadeguata in quanto le evidenze scientifiche espresse
da studi condotti con seria metodologia statistica richiamano con forza
alla classificazione di "probabili cancerogeni
2A".
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Mobile phone radiation causes brain tumors and should be classified as a
probable human carcinogen (2A) (Review).
1Environmental Health Trust, Teton Village, WY 83025, USA.
2Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N
3P7, Canada.
3INSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897‑Epidémiologie‑Biostatistique, F‑33000
Bordeaux, France.
Abstract
Quickly changing technologies and intensive uses of
radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF)‑emitting phones pose a challenge
to public health. Mobile phone users and uses and exposures to other wireless
transmitting devices (WTDs) have increased in the past few years. We consider
that CERENAT, a French national study, provides an important addition to the
literature evaluating the use of mobile phones and risk of brain tumors. The
CERENAT finding of increased risk of glioma is consistent with studies that
evaluated use of mobile phones for a decade or longer and corroborate those
that have shown a risk of meningioma from mobile phone use. In CERENAT, exposure
to RF‑EMF from digitally enhanced cordless telephones (DECTs), used by over
half the population of France during the period of this study, was not
evaluated. If exposures to DECT phones could have been taken into account, the
risks of glioma from mobile phone use in CERENAT are likely to be higher than
published. We conclude that radiofrequency fields should be classified as a
Group 2A ̔probable̓ human carcinogen under the criteria used by the
International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon, France). Additional data
should be gathered on exposures to mobile and cordless phones, other WTDs,
mobile phone base stations and Wi‑Fi routers to evaluate their impact on public
health. We advise that the as low as reasonable achievable (ALARA) principle be
adopted for uses of this technology, while a major cross‑disciplinary effort is
generated to train researchers in bioelectromagnetics and provide monitoring of
potential health impacts of RF‑EMF.
