Harvard Center for Risk Analysis

EMFs and Childhood Cancer: Are You Convinced?
March 1996, 4(2): 6 pp.

• Introduction
• Childhood Cancer
• Is There an Association With EMFs?
• Wire Codes as an Exposure Surrogate to Magnetic Fields
• Household Appliances
• Alternative Viewpoints
• Is the Public Convinced?

1. Savitz, David A. and Anders Ahlbom, "Epidemiologic Evidence on Cancer in Relation to Residential and Occupational Exposures," in David O. Carpenter and Sinerik Ayrapetyan, Biological Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields. Volume 2, San Diego; Academic Press, 1994, 233-261.

2. Stevens, Richard G., "Epidemiological Studies of Electromagnetic Fields and Health," in Charles Polk and Eliot Postow, Eds., Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press, Inc., 1996, 275-294.
   

Cellular Telephones and Brain Cancer
June 1995, 3(4): 2 pp.

• Introduction
  
• Nature of the Technology
  
• Sparce Science
  
• Citizens Go to Court
  
• Industry Response
  
• Independent WTR Program
  
• Peer Review Board

Further Reading:

1. United States General Accounting Office, "Telecommunications: Status of Research on the Safety of Cellular Telephones," United States General Accounting Office Report GAO/RCED-95-32, November, 1994.

2. Scientific Advisory Group on Cellular Telephone Research, "Potential Public Health Risks from Wireless Technology: Research Agenda for the Development of Data for Science-based Decisionmaking," Washington, DC. Scientific Advisory Group on Cellular Telephone Research, August, 1994.

Peer Reviewers:
George M. Gray, Ph.D.
Lorenz Rhomberg, Ph.D.
Peter Valberg, Ph.D.

• Introduction
  
• Why Study Workers?
  
• Adult Leukemia
  
• Brain Cancer
  
• Breast Cancer
  
• Prospects for Scientific Progress
  
• Harvard Advisory Committee on EMF and Human Health