Cell tower health dangers
The cellular phone industry continues to maintain that cell phone towers pose no health risk, but fewer people believe that these days. Almost all scientists in this field would disagree that cell towers are safe, except those employed by the industry, perhaps.
There is strong evidence that electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers is damaging to human (and animal) health.
A human study (Kempten West) in 2007 measured blood levels of seratonin and melatonin (important hormones involved in brain messaging, mood, sleep regulation and immune system function) both before, and five months after, the activation of a new cell site.
Twenty-five participants lived within 300 metres of the site. Substantial unfavourable changes occurred with respect to both hormones, in almost all participants. Kemptem West Study.
Other Cell Tower Health Effects
Individuals differ in their response to electromagnetic radiation.
For some people, short term effects from cell tower radiation exposure may include headaches, sleep disorders, poor memory, mental excitation, confusion, anxiety, depression, appetite disturbance and listlessness.
A small group of doctors from Bamberg, Germany, conducted their own study in 2005. They found increasing levels of both minor and serious health problems in patients exposed to higher radiation levels.
These health problems included tumours, diabetes, heart rhythm disturbances, inflammatory conditions, joint and limb pains, frequent infections, headaches, sleep disturbances, depression and memory problems.
Makes you wonder how much more information would be revealed by a well-designed and well-funded government study!
So don’t just worry about cancer. Those doctors found that all kinds of illnesses showed a similar pattern: a higher incidence in patients with higher radiation exposure.
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine reports that studies demonstrate “significant harmful biological effects occur from non-thermal RF exposure”, and these effects may include genetic damage, reproductive defects, cancer, neurological degeneration and nervous system dysfunction, immune system dysfunction, cognitive effects, protein and peptide damage, kidney damage, and developmental effects – all of which have been reported in peer-reviewed scientific literature. Further Info.
Can Cell Towers Cause Cancer?
A study performed by doctors from the German city of Naila monitored 1000 residents who had lived in an area around two cell phone towers for 10 years. During the last 5 years of the study they found that those living within 400 meters of either tower had a newly-diagnosed cancer rate three times higher than those who lived further away.
Breast cancer topped the list, but cancers of the prostate, pancreas, bowel, skin melanoma, lung and blood cancer were all increased. NailaStudy.pdf
Very few studies have specifically concentrated on cancer risk from cell phone towers. This lack of studies is in itself a cause for concern, especially since anecdotal evidence is plentiful.
For example, in a case known as “Towers of Doom”, two cell masts were installed (in 1994) on a five story apartment building in London. Residents complained of many health problems in the following years. Seven of them were diagnosed with cancer.
The cancer rate of the top floor residents (closest to the tower) was 10 times the national average. Further info.