Powerline Blog Action Day 2010: Towards a standard protocol
While television invites us to go on holiday with his fee for unlimited talk on the phone and internet-key for chatting on the beach, is published research to make us forget that the cost of these technologies have on health. But it is easy to disprove. Carry a press release from www.elettrosensibili.it.
20/05/2010 - Interphone, associations complain: "The absence of definite answers only encourages industry" Rome, 20 May 2010 - were finally published the results of the largest study ever made about the risks of cancer associated with the use of mobile phones. Led by a team of researchers in 13 countries, analyzed Interphone 2.708 2.409 cases of glioma and meningioma with 5634 controls, reaching the [usual] concluded that more research is needed. According to this first publication collegial associations dell'Interphone, output in the five-year delay expected because of internal disagreements among researchers of the participating nations, adds nothing to the earlier works released under the same label: 90% values \u200b\u200bof risk in meningiomas (benign brain tumors) and 90% of the glioma (malignant brain tumors) would indicate a protective effect of mobile phones, an effect that the authors find it impossible to attribute this as to a long series of errors and constraints of the protocol used. "But if you outsource those from the overall figures for the group of subjects with the highest levels of use of mobile phones, then we observe that 90% of the risk values \u200b\u200bin this group for meningiomas and 100% of the data for gliomas indicate statistically significant increases (at least a doubling) in the incidence of brain tumors, "said Professor today. Angelo Gino Levis, already a permanent member of the National Toxicology Commission, the National Oncology Commission and consultant to the manager of Brescia, which has recently been recognized occupational disease to falling ill with cancer after using for over ten years the mobile phone. "The observation of increased risk for these cancers is also in agreement with the analysis of the data (including data Interphone) group of Swedish researchers, led by Lennart Hardell of the University of Örebro
, but Interphone findings also give these increases to the same errors and constraints of the protocol used by them. " "These findings on the increase twice the risk for meningiomas and gliomas were endorsed also by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) in a monograph in 2007, but Interphone concluded that more studies are needed to determine definitively whether the use of mobile phones is or is not cause cancer in the head - said the Professor. Levis - and, therefore, who knows how much time will pass before Interphone certifies that for a long time under the eyes of all ". "Over the past five years there have been many criticisms of
Interphone
the reliability of the interviewed cases - remember the Dr. Anna Zucchero, physician and President of the Italian Electro - many, in fact, could not remember how long they used the cell and which side of the head in the control group were included, however, users cordless phones, devices that have biological effects similar to those of mobile phones, thereby creating a questionable distinction between the two groups analyzed.
"The technique of creating confusion, uncertainty and statistics to appeal to the need for further research is typical of research funded by industry, it has every incentive to take time to capture market opportunities before it to establish a consensus on the certainty of the risk "
, said Dr. Francesca Romana Orlando, journalist and Vice President of for Chronic Diseases of intoxication and / or environmental. "
When citing a study, one must always remember those who have very old - adds Dr. Orlando - Interphone since 2001 has cost 19.2 million euro, of which 3.74 paid by the European Commission, 5.5 million € industry of mobile phones and other sources. "
associations point out that, among the co-financiers dell'Interphone, are, in fact, the Mobile Manufacturers Forum, an organization that unites 12 of the main mobile phone companies worldwide, the GSM Association connected to Wi-Fi Alliance, which assembles more than 300 companies involved in mobile and wireless services, and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, an association of producers of technologies for wireless communications. Even the research programs of individual countries that participated all'Interphone were funded by the local mobile phone companies, for example Obhur, T-Mobile, Vodaphone, Three in the United Kingdom, the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects and Telstra Reserach Australia in Australia, Orange, France Telecom in France, the German Mobile Phone Research Program in Germany and Tekes in Finland, an association of local telephone companies. Associations claim that, for people who gives top priority to the principle of precaution and public health, the evidence produced by independent scientists such as those Group of BioInitiative are still such as to strongly discourage the use of cell phones, particularly in children, because they have a neurological system is still in formation, and adolescents since several researchers argue that, before you use the phone, the higher the risk of cancers of the head. For interviews with Prof.. Angelo Gino Levis contact tel. 049-8750240 or other contacts for the press: Francesca Romana Orlando and Silvia Bigeschi Vice President of AMICA
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Anna Sugar President of the Italian Electro
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