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Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) and brain cancer in
adults and children: review and comment.
Gurney JG, van Wijngaarden E. - Division of Epidemiology/Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics,
School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Epidemiologic and experimental research on the potential carcinogenic
effects of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) has now been
conducted for over two decades.
Cancer epidemiology studies in relation to
EMF have focused primarily on brain cancer and leukemia, both from
residential sources of exposure in children and adults and from occupational
exposure in adult men. Because genotoxic effects of EMF have not been
shown, most recent laboratory research has attempted to show
biological effects that could be related to cancer promotion. In this
report, we briefly review residential and occupational EMF studies on brain
cancer. We also provide a general review of experimental
studies as they relate both to the biological plausibility of an
EMF-brain cancer relation and to the insufficiency of such research to
help guide exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies.
We conclude
from our review that no recent research, either epidemiologic or
experimental, has emerged to provide reasonable support for a causal
role of EMF on brain cancer.
Publication Types: Review - Review, Tutorial - PMID: 11550314 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
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