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Neuro-Oncology 1999 1(3):212-220; doi:10.1093/neuonc/1.3.212
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© 1999 by the Society forNeuro-Oncology

Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) and brain cancer inadults and children: Review and comment

James G. Gurney1 and Edwin van Wijngaarden

Division of Epidemiology/Clinical Research, Departmentof Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455 (J.G.G.); and Department of Epidemiology, Schoolof Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599(E.W.)

1 Address correspondence and reprint requests to James G. Gurney, PhD,University of Minnesota, Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, 1300 S. 2nd St.,Ste. 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015.


  Abstract

Epidemiologic and experimental research on the potential carcinogeniceffects of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) has now beenconducted for over two decades. Cancer epidemiology studies in relation to EMFhave focused primarily on brain cancer and leukemia, both from residentialsources of exposure in children and adults and from occupational exposure inadult men. Because genotoxic effects of EMF have not been shown, most recentlaboratory research has attempted to show biological effects that could berelated to cancer promotion. In this report, we briefly review residential andoccupational EMF studies on brain cancer. We also provide a general review ofexperimental studies as they relate both to the biological plausibility of anEMF-brain cancer relation and to the insufficiency of such research to helpguide exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies. We conclude from ourreview that no recent research, either epidemiologic or experimental, hasemerged to provide reasonable support for a causal role of EMF on braincancer.

Received March 2, 1999; Accepted April 13, 1999


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