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EMF Exposure as a Potential Risk
Factor for Breast Cancer
Environmental risk factors for breast cancer were one of the
major themes at the first World Conference on Breast Cancer.
Evidence for electromagnetic fields (EMF) as yet another
environmental risk factor was presented to an audience of
scientists and advocates at the conference.
There is a growing body of scientific evidence supporting an
association between EMF exposure and many cancers, including
breast cancer.
Early studies first showed a high incidence of male breast
cancer in telephone and rail workers exposed to EMF. Seeing
that male breast tissue may be at risk, researchers followed
the lead to evaluate women's occupational risk. Some points
made at the Conference included:
- Evidence from more than 100 epidemiological studies has
shown an association between occupational and residential
EMF exposures and various cancers.
- EMF is also associated in epidemiological studies with
increased risk of childhood cancers, particularly leukemia.
- There is sufficient scientific evidence at this time to
consider EMF to be a potential risk factor for breast
cancer.
- Epidemiological evidence from half a dozen studies
supports an association between EW exposure and breast
cancer. Results of two new epidemiological studies are due
soon. (Watch for Scott Davis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center in Seattle, and Maria Feychting, Karolinska
Institute in Sweden).
- Similar cell studies show the beneficial effect of
tamoxifen is also blocked at 12 mG EMF (magnetic field)
levels. This suggests action may be needed to assess whether
the environment of women taking tamoxifen is highly EMF
exposed. No such controls are now evident in either clinical
trials of tamoxifen or for those on tamoxifen therapy.
- Studies on MCF-7 human breast cancer cells show EMF
(magnetic field) exposure at 12 mG blocks the
tumor-suppressing action of melatonin, causing cell
proliferation of malignant cells.
- Two more laboratories have now replicated the melatonin
work, showing that EMF exposure reduces the beneficial
oncostatic action of melatonin, which normally reduces
malignant cell growth in human breast cancer cells.
- Animal studies performed in Germany have consistently
showed the number and size of chemically induced mammary
tumors is greater in the presence of EMF (magnetic fields).
Replication studies are now underway in the U.S. at Battelle
Pacific Northwest labs.
- EMF exposure has been reported to interact with male
hormone systems. Studies of EMF and women's hormone systems
is underway at the Kansas Mdwest Research Institute.
At the World Conference the following recommendations for
the Global Action Plan were made based on a working agenda
from panel and conference participants:
- Conclusive scientific evidence should not be required to
establish reasonable interim policies for prudent avoidance
of EMF exposure. Consensus of industry scientists should not
be a prerequisite for action in determining when a causal
link between EMF and breast cancer has been achieved. We
should not go down the "tobacco road" on this issue.
- Standards of evidence required to establish prudent public
health actions should be defined with the input of
stakeholders, and triggers for policy and action should
hinge on the weight of the evidence in accord with prudent
public health policy.
- International health organizations and agencies should
issue public health advisories for those exposed to levels
of EMF implicated with increased risks to all cancers,
including breast cancer. These advisories should address
both residential and occupational exposures.
- Reliable, unbiased information on ENE as a risk factor
should be developed and distributed through a clearinghouse
that is available to the public. Scientific, public health
and policy option information should be provided for
independent review at an affordable cost to the public.
Research articles and prudent avoidance strategies in many
languages should be made available.
- Even a small increased risk for breast cancer translates
into an enormous public health consequence, therefore we
should take reasonable prudent action to reduce exposure and
inform the public of the potential for increased risk. Women
in the workplace who are exposed to elevated levels of EMF
should have requests for measurement and monitoring of
occupational EMF levels honored by their employers.
- Women in the workplace who are subject to elevated EMF
levels should be allowed to switch to non-exposed work
environments during pregnancy.
- Those taking tamoxifen as therapy should be advised to
evaluate and consider reducing their EMF exposure.
- The EMF research agenda worldwide should be set with the
input of stakeholders affected by the outcome, including
breast cancer advocates.
- A delegate from the World Conference should be placed on
the World Health International EMF Advisory Committee to
monitor progress in EMF research and policy with respect to
breast cancer.
- No country or national health agency should allow any
world body to preempt its authority to set EMF standards.
Standards need to be created with the participation of
stakeholders, including breast cancer advocates.
Source: Cindy Sage, Sage Associates, Santa Barbara,
California
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Exposed Canadian Breasts at Risk by Dr. Andrew Michrowski
Canada has the world’s highest extremely low frequency (ELF)
magnetic fields in residential areas. This includes the
electric power frequency. And we have among the most
elevated exposure for cellular phone and mast emissions. Not
surprisingly, we also have the world’s greatest incidence of
breast cancer.
Breast cancer depends on the ability of the pineal gland to
properly secrete the melatonin hormone at bedtime. This
hormone is a strong radical scavenger, helpful in fighting
cancer. Magnetic fields inhibit melatonin production.
Melatonin suppresses estrogen production by the ovary and
prolactin production by the pituitary gland. Melatonin
reduction results in increased estrogen and prolactin
production, and thereby induces increased turnover of breast
epithelial stem cells at risk for malignant transformation.
The likelihood that breast stem cells will be affected by
cancer-casing agents (such as chemical carcinogens occuring
in the environment) is increased by the reduced production
of melatonin.
Scientific experiments also have demonstrated the effect of
ELF magnetic fields on the target cell activity of melatonin
in cultured human breast cancer cells. This suggests that
this frequency (and possibly radio frequency/microwave)
exposure could have negative effects on how needy cells
actually succeed in using melatonin to correctly regulate
cell growth and division. Magnetic sensors in cells
translate weak fields into biomechanical effects. It also
seems that weak fields resonate with living systems to
eventually amplify into biological significance.
An Electric History of Cancer
The first observation that the use of electric power
accounts in part for higher risks of breast cancer was made
in a 1982 study of residential magnetic field exposures of
adults. Since then, the 1998 working group US National
Institutes of Health report determined that there was some
evidence that residential exposure to ELF magnetic fields is
carcinogenic. This assessment was based on studies of:
- Women who used electric blankets throughout the night
compared with never-users.
- Persons who had lived within 300 metres of Swedish 220 and
400 kV transmission lines.
- An excess of male breast cancer among central office
technician telephone employees.
- Breast cancer among men under 65 in electrical
occupations.
- Two-fold increases in skin breast cancer observed in
exposed men in the electrical trades.
- Significantly elevated risk for male breast cancer in the
electrical transport industry.
- Increased risk factors for high occupational 60 Hz
electromagnetic field exposure were noted in six thousand,
eight hundred cases of breast cancer from cancer registries.
Scientific and government panels consider the two to
three-fold increases in risk for breast cancer rates from
ELF exposure "low" or "insignificant." This barely
acknowledges a doubling of breast cancer rate, which
represents 31 percent of all cancers in women. Yet that is
just how press releases of publicly-funded research present
the case for public consumption.
Would the public accept more visible two-fold increases of
deaths from car accidents, plane crashes or twice the number
of oil tanker spills?
During the breast cancer healing process, exposure to ELF
and radio frequencies should be totally removed. You can
measure electromagnetic field levels in your house or
workplace with a gauss meter. Exposure management requires
better training of electricians (to respect existing
electrical codes), better building design–especially in
clinics–by architects and builders.
If we collectively reduce long-term electromagnetic exposure
to absolutely safe levels, we will observe a like decrease
of major diseases such as breast cancer.
Source: Alive magazine
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