Research underlines powerline cancer risk
People who live close to high-voltage powerlines during childhood are up to five times more likely to develop cancer, according to Australian research.
The Tasmanian study of more than 850 patients, published in the Internal Medicine Journal, adds weight to the link between electromagnetic fields and cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. It is still not known whether there is a cause and effect relationship.
Researchers from the University of Tasmania and Bristol University in Britain compared an existing database of all patients in Tasmania diagnosed with lymphatic and bone marrow cancers between 1972 and 1980, with controls matched for sex and age.
