The WHO EMF Project had commissioned 12 separate reviews to assess existing studies on the health effects of EMFs and indeed, many of these were true to form, finding little harm from wireless radiation. Take, for example, the systematic review on ‘The Effect of Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields on Cancer Risk in the General and Working Population’, by Karipidis et al. (2024). This concluded that exposure to mobile phones or phone masts is unlikely to cause brain cancer or childhood cancer and that occupational exposure may not cause brain cancer, with one of the authors, Ken Karipidis, being quoted in the Guardian as saying, “concerns around links between cancer and mobile phones should be put to rest”.
However, in a complete turnaround, this latest review, ‘Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure on Cancer in Laboratory Animal Studies’ (Mevissen et al.), published on April 25th, concludes that there is “evidence that RF-EMF exposure increases the incidence of cancer in experimental animals with the [certainty of evidence] being strongest for malignant heart schwannomas and gliomas” (brain tumours). The review also found moderate certainty of evidence of an increased risk of rare tumours in the adrenal glands and in the liver. Although the study states that extrapolating the level of human risk of cancer from animal studies can be complex, the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) has said in its press release: “Notably, the same types of tumours have also been observed in human studies, adding significant confidence that the associations observed in human studies are real.” (The ICBE-EMF is an independent “ international consortium of scientists, doctors and researchers with expertise and peer-reviewed publications on the biological and health effects of electromagnetic fields including wireless RF radiation.” ] ...<<<Read More>>>...
