VALHALLA COMMITTEE
For Environmental Health

Cell Phone Transmission Towers and Ill Health Effects

Compilation of medical and scientific studies – media reports

Reference document – Peer reviewed studies of Ill Health Effects from Cell Towers

In a review of 14 studies collected from the WHO database and put together by Drs. Michael Kundi and Hans-Peter Huttera, 10 out of the 14 presently existent peer-reviewed studies analyzed found significant increases in ill health effects from cell tower exposures. (Kundi, 2008 at the London EMF International Conference). Populations close to cellular antennas show an increase in the effects of health problems in those closest to the antennas with the risk factors dropping off as distance and RFR levels decrease. Symptoms range from sleep disturbances and headaches to breast and brain cancers.

The special edition of the Journal of the International Society of Pathophysiology (August 2009) contains this study by Dr. Michael Kundi (available upon request.)

Summary of Six Studies Showing Ill-Health Effects From Mobile Phone Masts
Document produced by Dr Grahame Blackwell 21st Feb 2005

Below find five of the six studies cited by Dr. Grahame Blackwell as well as a newer Austrian study.

Medical study - Mobile Phone Stations - (September 2003)
Study for the Netherlands Ministries of Economic Affairs, Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and Health, Welfare and Sport undertaken by Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), finding significant ill health effects on well-being.

The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on Incidence of Cancer
Eger, Hagen, Lucas, Vogel, Voit, (translated from German) with extensive citations (2004)

Medical study - International Journal of Cancer Prevention (April 2004)
“Increased Incidence of Cancer near a Cell-Phone Transmitter Station” by Ronni Wolf, MD and Danny Wolf, MD, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel.

Medical study - Mobile Phone Base-stations (May 1, 2004)
Analysis by Dr. Gerd Oberfeld, Public Health Department, Salzburg, Austria regarding a medical study conducted in a town in the south-east of Spain, with 1900 inhabitants, showing significant ill health effects.

Report from Pathological Biology: Health Effects from living in vicinity of cell phone towers
Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS, France. (2002) Translated into English)

Austrian government releases study linking cancer clusters to Cell phone tower.
(January 20, 2008) Dr. Gerd Oberfeld, Salzburg, Austria

Medical Article - Media Releases- International Association of Firefighters - European Medical Doctors - School Boards: On the subject of Cell Phone towers and their ill health effects.

Medical article - Mobile Phone Masts (March 2008)
“Why mobile phone masts can be more dangerous than the phones” by Andrew Goldsworthy BSc PhD, Honorary Lecturer in Biology at Imperial College, London. March 2008

Media release - European Parliament and Cell Towers (Canwest News Service April 2, 2009)
European parliament votes overwhelmingly to push for tougher regulations to keep mobile phone towers and other electromagnetic emitting devices away from schools.

Media report (November 2009) - Cancer Cluster
43 Cancer Cases among 350 residents (Malaga, Spain) living near a mobile telephone antenna

Newspaper article: The Sunday Times, London (22 April 2007)
Seven clusters of cancer found around cell phone masts throughout Britain.

Article: Citizen's Group from Britain on Cancer Clusters from Cell Phone Masts
More information about research by Dr. John Walker about cancer clusters near cell phone towers in Britain.

UK Newspaper Report 8 July 2007, The Independent
Two in three believe Radiation from phones damaged their health. Poll by European Union of 27,000 users. (2 pages)

UK Media Report: Telegraph (May 17, 2005)
Rural users of cell phones have much higher risk of brain tumours. (2 pages)

Report: International Association of Fire-Fighters
Division on Occupational Heath, Safety and Medicine and extensive citations (31 pages)
International Association of Firefighters represents 296,000 full time firefighters and paramedics in the US. Their resolution:

“The International Association of Fire Fighters' position on locating cell towers commercial wireless infrastructure on fire department facilities, as adopted by its membership in August 2004, is that the IAFF oppose the use of fire stations as base stations for towers and/or antennas for the conduction of cell phone transmissions until a study with the highest scientific merit and integrity on health effects of exposure to low-intensity RF/MW radiation is conducted and it is proven that such sitings are not hazardous to the health of our members . . . . Specifically, there is concern for the effects of radio frequency radiation on the central nervous system (CNS) and the immune system, as well as other metabolic effects observed in preliminary studies.”

Freiburger Appeal
An appeal “. . . to the medical establishment and those in public health and political domains, as well as to the public . . .) started in 2002 in Germany and continuing to gain signatures from medical practitioners (presently has 1200 medical doctors signed on), about cell phones and their transmission towers.

Bamberg Appeal, Aug 3, 2004, 114 physicians
German Doctors unite on RF health effects from masts
Open letter to Prime Minister of Germany August 2004

Minutes of the Vancouver School Board (January, 2005)
Vancouver School Board prohibits Cell Phone transmitter tower installation within 300 metres of school grounds.

Press release by Los Angeles Unified School District (May, 2009)
“Los Angeles Board Of Education Members Vote To Prohibit Cell Phone Towers Near Schools.”