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Phone cancer report buried
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Times (One of the UK's leading newspapers)


The Times (One of the UK's leading newspapers), April 15, 2007
Posted: October 24th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/artic...

T-MOBILE, the mobile phone giant, has been accused of burying a scientific report it commissioned that concluded handsets and masts contribute to cancer and genetic damage. The report argued that officially recommended limits on radiation exposure should be cut to 1/1000th of those in force. The suggestion has not been taken up by the company or by regulators. Campaigners claimed T-Mobiles handling of the report was part of a wider pattern of behaviour by the industry in its efforts to keep discussion of the health risks off the agenda. The Ecolog Institute, which has been researching mobile phone technology since 1992, was paid by T-Mobile to evaluate evidence on its potential dangers. But Dr Peter Neitzke, one of the authors of the report, has accused T-Mobile ... of diluting the findings by commissioning other studies from which it knew no critical results or recommendations were to be expected. Ecologs report, which analysed dozens of peer-reviewed studies, stated: Given the results of the present epidemiological studies, it can be concluded that electromagnetic fields with frequencies in the mobile telecommunications range do play a role in the development of cancer. This is particularly notable for tumours of the central nervous system.

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