Title: Comments on the National Toxicology Program Report on Cancer, Rats and Cell Phone Radiation,
Abstract: With the National Toxicology Program issuing its final report on cancer, rats
and cell phone radiation, one can draw the following conclusions from their
data. There is a roughly linear relationship between gliomas (brain cancers)
and schwannomas (cancers of the nerve sheaths around the heart) with increased
absorption of 900 MHz radiofrequency radiation for male rats. The rate of these
cancers in female rats is about one third the rate in male rats; the rate of
gliomas in female humans is about two thirds the rate in male humans. Both of
these observations can be explained by a decrease in sensitivity to chemical
carcinogenesis in both female rats and female humans. The increase in male rat
life spans with increased radiofrequency absorption is due to a reduction in
kidney failure from a decrease in food intake. No such similar increase in the
life span of humans who use cell phones is expected.