That's lymphatic and bone marrow cancers, which especially includes
myeloma, leukemia, Hodgkins, and non-Hodgkins lymphomas.
BTW, here's a report of what appears to be a really stupid study,
unless it is just bad reporting.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/157/5/505.pdf
"In the news . . .
Putting an end to fears
about power lines
Concern about a possible link between
high-voltage power lines
and leukemia was sparked in 1979
with the publication of a study
showing there was twice the risk
of cancer among children living
near power lines."
"Data collectors blinded to the
children’s health measured magnetic
fields in the children’s bedrooms
and other parts of their
houses..."
The reason this is so stupid is it measures *magnetic fields* (which
are of course miniscule) and apparently ignores the important stuff,
like the magnitude of induced currents in long conductive pathways
like the bones, lymphatic system, and circulatory system. Again and
again you see references to numbers on the order of 1 micro Tesla or
way less, far less than the earth's magnetic field. What counts is
the amount of current induced in body conductive loops, indoors and
out of doors. This should be measured by a standard loop of some
kind, or maybe a standard instrumented dummy. It is a combination
electrostatic electromagnetic effect.
On Aug 25, 2007, at 1:30 PM, leaking pen wrote:
Pardon me, cancer rates in general, and yes i can. ill go digging.
im actually not sure about bone marrow in particular. I'll have to
check on that.
On 8/25/07, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bone marrow cancer rates correspond to poverty rates? I was not
aware
of that. Can you provide a reference?
Many diseases, including most significantly heart disease, hit the
poor
and uneducated harder (and hit U.S. citizens harder than citizens of
most other countries -- draw your own conclusions). Diseases
which are
correlated with poor, crowded conditions, such as TB, also tend to
hit
the poor harder. And many diseases show a tendency to hit particular
races harder than other races, independent of educational or economic
background, which provides another bit of confusion in societies
which
are more or less segregated.
But I was not aware that bone marrow cancer showed such a
correlation.
leaking pen wrote:
Correspondence is NOT causality. the numbers also match up with
poverty figures, and guess where most high power lines run? through
the poorer areas. there are too many factors at play. until i see a
study with lab animals kept near replicas of high power lines, i
pass
it off.
On 8/24/07, Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's report not yet suppressed and not yet discredited:
http://tinyurl.com/27uyfv
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
