Storico articolo del 1997 ( quasi 20 anni
fa ) dove i cellulari non erano certamente così diffusi e potenti, di Reapacholi che stranamente
abbandonò la ricerca indipendente per diventare un oppositore del Principio di
Precauzione, determinando quel fronte negazionista che imperversa ancora
oggi, con questo studio dimostrò un
incremento di 2,4 volte di linfomi per topi esposti alle frequenze di un GSM 900
MHz. ( lo studio venne poi replicato per 2 volte con successo da ricercatori indipendenti
australiani )
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Radiat Res. 1997 May;147(5):631-40.
Author
information
· 1Royal
Adelaide Hospital, Australia.
Abstract
Whether radiofrequency (RF) fields are carcinogenic is
controversial; epidemiological data have been inconclusive and animal tests
limited. The aim of the present study was to determine whether long-term
exposure to pulse-modulated RF fields similar to those used in digital mobile
telecommunications would increase the incidence of lymphoma in E mu-Pim1
transgenic mice, which are moderately predisposed to develop lymphoma
spontaneously. One hundred female E mu-Pim1 mice were sham-exposed and 101 were
exposed for two 30-min periods per day for up to 18 months to plane-wave fields
of 900 MHz with a pulse repetition frequency of 217 Hz and a pulse width of 0.6
ms. Incident power densities were 2.6-13 W/m2 and specific absorption rates
were 0.008-4.2 W/kg, averaging 0.13-1.4 W/kg. Lymphoma risk was found to be
significantly higher in the exposed mice than in the controls (OR = 2.4. P =
0.006, 95% CI = 1.3-4.5). Follicular lymphomas were the major contributor to
the increased tumor incidence. Thus long-term intermittent exposure to RF
fields can enhance the probability that mice carrying a lymphomagenic oncogene
will develop lymphomas. We suggest that such genetically cancer-prone mice
provide an experimental system for more detailed assessment of dose-response relationships
for risk of cancer after RF-field exposure.
