German Study Indicates Living Near a Cell Tower Tripled the Cancer Rate of Its Citizens

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The result of the study from Germany (headquarters of T-mobile) shows that the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was significantly higher among those patients who had lived during the past ten years at a distance of up to 400 metres (approximately a quarter of a mile) from the cellular transmitter site, which had been in operation since 1993, compared to those patients living further away. In addition, patients who did have cancer and lived near the cell tower, fell ill on average 8 years earlier than anyone with cancer outside the quarter mile radius.

In the years 1999-2004, ie after five years’ operation of the transmitting installation, the relative risk of getting cancer had tripled for the residents of the area in the proximity of the tower.

The study was conducted with no outside financial support (no telecommunications money to influence the results).

The results presented were considered to be concrete epidemiological sign of a temporal and spatial connection between exposure to cellphone base station radiation and the disease of cancer, with leukemia being the most common. The reserachers concluded that the results From both an ethical and legal standpoint it is necessary to immediately start to monitor the health of the residents living in areas near mobile telephone base stations with epidemiological studies. This is necessary because this study has shown that it is no longer safely possible to assume that there is no causal link between radio frequency transmissions and increased cancer rates.

Since that time, Germany enacted laws that keep cell towers away from their citizens, both adults and children. They also do not allow cell towers near their food supply or food sources, such as cattle fields. T-mobile has since expanded in the U.S. where these practices are still permitted.

Germany still has excellent mobile coverage.

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