Evidence for EMF-Cancer Link Deemed Weak, Risk Small
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC-After 6 years of research and 2 years of review, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reported to Congress that the evidence that low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can cause cancer and other human diseases is weak, but added that EMF exposure “cannot be recognized as entirely safe.”
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NCAfter 6 years of research and 2 years of review, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reported to Congress that the evidence that low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can cause cancer and other human diseases is weak, but added that EMF exposure cannot be recognized as entirely safe.
A 1996 report by the Institute of Medicine found scant evidence to support EMF as a cancer risk, and federal investigators recently discredited a study from the Energy Departments Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory because a scientist omitted data that did not support a link between EMFs and cancer.
![We must work on clinical predictors based on the disease phenotype, we must work on the physician’s attitude, and [we must work to] stimulate the correct and timely usage of ruxolitinib.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F0vv8moc6%2Fcancernetwork%2Fd5a069c33bbfe917bc7c0b1bb13d76c0a815cc44-234x234.png%3Ffit%3Dcrop%26auto%3Dformat&w=3840&q=75 "We must work on clinical predictors based on the disease phenotype, we must work on the physician’s attitude, and [we must work to] stimulate the correct and timely usage of ruxolitinib.")
