L Hardell

..A somewhat increased risk was also found for low-grade astrocytoma and other types of malignant brain tumors, although not significantly so. In multivariate analysis, all three phone types studied showed an increased risk...

..63-55 for ipsilateral use of analog phones. The highest risks were associated with >5-year latency period in the 20-29-yr age group for analog phones (OR = 8.17, 95% CI = 0.94-71), and cordless phones (OR = 4.30, 95% CI = 1.22-15)...

..3, 95% CI=0.99-1.7; for digital phones, OR=1.1, 95% CI=0.9-1.3; and for cordless phones, OR=1.1, 95% CI=0.9-1.4. In the multivariate analysis, a significantly increased risk of acoustic neuroma was found with the use of analogue phones...

..Digital phones yielded OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.05-3.8, whereas for cordless phones OR was not significantly increased. In the multivariate analysis, analogue phones represented a significant risk factor for acoustic neuroma...

..To study the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk for malignant brain tumours...

..The information certainly cannot be used as reassuring evidence against an association, for reasons that we discuss in this commentary...

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..The aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to assess use of wireless phones and to study such use in relation to explanatory factors and self-reported health symptoms...

..As children have longer expected lifetime exposures to microwaves from these devices than adults, who started to use them later in life, they are a group of special interest...

..To evaluate brain tumour risk among long-term users of cellular telephones...

..The decline of the increasing incidence of testicular cancer during recent years may reflect decreasing body burden of certain POPs since the 1980s...

..To evaluate the use of cellular and cordless telephones as the risk factor for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)...

..2, 95% CI=1.18-106. The results were based on low numbers and must be interpreted with caution. This hypothesis generating study indicates the necessity of a larger investigation on this issue...

..To investigate the association between the use of cellular or cordless telephones and the risk for brain tumours in different geographical areas, urban and rural...

..0, enzyme-inducing PCBsOR = 2.6, 95% CI = 1.03-6.5 and toxic equivalents (TEQ) yielded OR = 3.3, 95% CI = 1.3-8.4. These data further elucidate the role of foetal exposure to different PCB congeners in the aetiology of testicular cancer...

..To investigate the association between the use of cellular or cordless telephones and the risk for salivary gland tumours...

..Unfortunately, the lessons of history seem to go unheeded, as exemplified by the case of cellular telephones...

..In addition, he had used a cordless telephone since 1997. He always placed a phone on his right ear during phone calls. The right side of this individual's head contained 5 of the 6 tumors that eventually developed...

..We sought to study the concentrations of certain persistent organic pollutants with endocrine-disrupting properties in cases with prostate cancer and controls with benign prostate hyperplasia...

..7-8.7. In conclusion, an increased risk was found for glioma and use of mobile or cordless phone. The risk increased with latency time and cumulative use in hours and was highest in subjects with first use before the age of 20...

..The results must be interpreted with caution since use of mobile and cordless phones were self-reported. Awareness of exposure condition in the experimental study may have influenced beta-trace protein concentrations...

..7, 95% CI = 0.8-3.4 was found in the group with >2,000 h of cumulative use. This investigation confirmed our previous results of an association between mobile phone use and malignant brain tumors...

..However, the medical diagnosis and treatment of this tumour type has changed during recent years and underreporting from a single center would have a large impact for such a rare tumour...

..3-3.1 for contralateral use (two studies). We conclude that this meta-analysis gave a consistent pattern of an association between mobile phone use and ipsilateral glioma and acoustic neuroma using > or =10-years latency period...

..In the 1970's public concern increased in Sweden especially regarding use of phenoxy herbicides to combat deciduous wood, although statements from different authorities were reassuring of the safety...

..Other health impacts associated with exposure to electromagnetic fields not summarized here may be found in the BioInitiative Report at www.bioinitiative.org...

..294 days), p,p'-DDE (134 vs. 302 days), and sum of chlordanes (142 vs. 294 days) in the high and low group, respectively. The results were based on a low number of cases and should be interpreted with caution...

..Cryptorchidism was associated both with seminoma (OR = 4.2, CI = 2.7-6.5) and non-seminoma (OR = 3.3, CI = 2.0-5.6), but no interaction was found with the use of cellular or cordless telephones...

..To determine persistent organic pollutants in adipose tissue in a patient with kidney cancer...

..The potential for distorting the epidemiological assessments of hazard and risk through paid consultants, pretending to be independent, is not exclusive to the tobacco industry...

..The change in incidence of NHL in Sweden and other countries may serve as a good example of how prohibition and limitation of exposure may be reflected in cancer statistics some decades later...

..Also, certain viruses have been suggested to be of etiologic significance for NHL. In some cases of NHL the common mechanism for all these agents and conditions may be immunosuppression, possibly in combination with viruses...

..Ionizing radiation is a well-established risk factor for brain tumors. During recent years, microwave exposure from the use of cellular telephones has been discussed as a potential risk factor...

..To investigate the use of cellular and cordless phones and the risk for malignant brain tumours...

..To evaluate childhood cancer in relation to duration of breast-feeding...

..With regard to different tumour types, the highest risk was for acoustic neurinoma (OR 3.5, 95% CI 1.8-6.8) among analogue cellular telephone users...

..However, in multivariate analyses the only significantly increased risk was for a heterogeneous category of other herbicides than above...

..79 and EA>80 an odds ratio of 2.8 with 95% confidence interval 0.52-18 was calculated. These results indicated that current exposure to certain organochlorines in combination with EBV might increase the risk for NHL...

..Also for the "sum of immunotoxic PCBs" increased risk was found in that group (OR=6.4, CI=1.9-24). Subdivision of NHL in histological types yielded highest risks for low-grade B-cell NHL...

..42, 95% CI 0.97-6.05 (i.e. the anatomical areas with highest exposure to microwaves from a mobile phone)...

..We used the number of Temperance Board registrations as an index of severity of alcoholism; this measure was not associated with risk for cancer...

..We discuss the potential of fetal and breast-feeding exposure of the son. Neurodevelopmental impairment has been reported for dioxins and PCBs, but DDT seems to have been less investigated in this respect...

..In view of currently available evidence, the first priority for reducing morbidity due to NHL might be to take action against adverse chemical exposures as a measure that is more easily achievable than any other kind of prevention...

..1 (95% CI, 1.5-11); for cis-nonachlordane, OR = 3.1 (95% CI, 1.2-7.8); and for sum of chlordanes, OR = 1.9 (95% CI, 0.7-5.0). No consistent different risk pattern was found for seminoma or nonseminoma testicular cancer...

..05 ng/g lipid) yielding odds ratio (OR) 1.9 with 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.3-14 and OR 3.8, CI 0.7-26, respectively. The results for the patients with malignant melanoma did not differ from the controls...

..This treatment modality may be considered as an alternative to mutilating surgery in patients with desmoid tumor...

..11, 95% CI=1.01-1.22, and cordless phones OR=1.09, 95% CI=1.01-1.19. There was a tendency of a shorter tumour induction period for ipsilateral exposure to microwaves than for contralateral, which may indicate a tumour promotor effect...

..The risk increased further if cases with self-reported cryptorchidism or orchitis were excluded. Six of the 7 exposed cases had seminoma. Exposure to other types of plastics did not significantly increase the risk of testicular cancer...

..We also found increased risk for the sum of immunotoxic PCB group...

..1-2.3), respectively. A dose-response effect was observed. Although not statistically significant, a multivariate analysis similarly suggested that the most important risk factors were beer and liquor consumption, followed by smoking...

..impregnating agents, animals, and exhausts. However, the numbers of exposed cases and controls were small in some of the calculations...

..However, this "endocrine disruptors" hypothesis must be further evaluated in experimental models with regard to the causative mechanisms of the oestrogenic tumour promotion...

..4-7.7 and sum of chlordanes yielded OR 6.8, 95% CI 2.3-20, whereas no association was found with PBDE. In summary, this study confirmed an association between certain POPs and NHL with an interaction with titre of IgG antibody to EBV EA...

..To evaluate in a case-control study possible risk of endometrial cancer associated with environmental endocrine disruptors...

..3-3.3). In an additional multivariate model, the ORs remained elevated for all these exposures with the exception of insecticides. We found a reduced risk for smokers with OR 0.6 (CI 0.4-1.1) because of an effect among non-farmers...

..We propose that TTR might be involved in the findings of RF exposure benefit in AD mice...

..In conclusion, no clear association with testicular cancer and exposure to PVC could be found in our study in contrast to a previous observation...

..BFR levels in dust and air were not dependent on the house characteristics such as living area, floor material or number of electronic devices...

..Since the late 1970s, experimental animal studies have been carried out on the possible effects of low-intensive radiofrequency fields on the blood-brain barrier (BBB), but no epidemiological study has been published to date...

..07-2.30. Results are also presented for different entities of NHL. In conclusion our study confirmed an association between exposure to phenoxyacetic acids and NHL and the association with glyphosate was considerably strengthened...

..10% (95% CI=1.41, 2.80), benign brain tumours +3.77% (95% CI=2.47, 5.10), and PNET/medulloblastoma +1.96% (95% CI=0.48, 3.46). Changes in diagnostic criteria and better diagnostic tools may have contributed to these results...

..To evaluate the long time outcome with regard to local tumour control, cosmetic outcome and side effects of a short (5 days) accelerated interstitial brachytherapy treatment delivered to the surroundings of the operated sector...

..02). The clinical significance of this finding, if any, is unknown. Further randomized studies with use of additional more brain specific markers are needed...

..0) as well as for the group of IHC p53 positive tumours (OR 12). No association between smoking and p53 positivity was found (OR 1.0)...

..We also conclude that Swedish residents are exposed to a large number of PFCs to the same extent as in USA, Japan, Colombia and the few other countries from which data is available today...

..For all other brain tumors taken together, the incidence significantly increased yearly by +0.80% (CI 0.59-1.02) for the time period 1960-1998, although the increase was only significant for benign tumors other than VS during 1960-1979...

..3 and 4.6 with highest overall risk for acoustic neuroma (3.5) and uveal melanoma (4.2), and there is evidence for enhanced cancer risk with increasing latency and duration of mobile phone use...

..Is there any epidemiologically visible influence on the cancer incidence after the Chernobyl fallout in Sweden?..

..Their conclusion was, however, based on an unbalanced view of current literature in favour of studies showing no association. These circumstances are further explored in this communication...

..CONCLUSION: Our study does overall not support an association between occupational sunlight exposure and risk of uveal melanoma. The finding of an excess risk of eye melanoma in cooks in several European countries is intriguing...

..Females working in the paper and pulp industries may also be exposed to carcinogens of relevance to MF...

..This study investigated the association between cancer of the extrahepatic biliary tract and exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds...

..In order to examine the associations between sinonasal cancer and occupational exposures other than wood dust and leather dust, the data from 12 case-control studies conducted in seven countries were pooled and reanalyzed...

..After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, as much as 5% of the released caesium-137 was deposited in Sweden due to a heavy rainfall 2 days after the event. A study of increased incidence of malignancies was initiated after the accident...

..Mycosis Fungoides (MF) is a rare disease with an occurrence indicating that occupational exposures may play a role. To estimate the association between MF and occupational exposures as measured by means of an job-exposure matrix (JEM)...

..We sought to study the association between occupational sun exposure and mycosis fungoides (MF), a peripheral T-cell lymphoma...

..1; 95% CI, 0.8 to 107). This explorative study suggests an association between certain occupational exposures and SBC, but some of these associations could be attributable to chance. All findings should be regarded as tentative...

..The results suggest some risk of acute lymphocytic leukemia from indoor ionizing radiation among children and young adults...

..For all studied phone types OR for brain tumours, mainly acoustic neuroma and malignant brain tumours, increased with latency period, especially for astrocytoma grade III-IV...

..This study aims to evaluate these findings and to identify new associations...

..To identify risk factors of carcinoma of the extrahepatic biliary tract in men...