Just over a year ago, the Danish Cancer Society (DCS) issued a
news advisory with some alarming news: The number of men diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most malignant type of brain cancer, had doubled over the last ten years.
Hans Skovgaard Poulsen, the head of neuro-oncology at Copenhagen University Hospital was quoted in the release as saying that this was a "frightening development."
At the time,
Christoffer Johansen, a senior researcher at the DCS told us: "I think the data is true and valid." And
Joachim Schüz, a long time collaborator of Johansen's at the DCS who is now at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (
IARC) in Lyon told
Microwave News that the news was "indeed a concern." He said that he could not explain it. (See
our report here.)
After that, there was silence. No one talked about the spike in glioblastomas. Over the following year, we kept asking people whether there was any follow-up news. But there was nothing.
Then last week,
Epidemiology, a leading journal, released an advance copy of a
commentary on "Mobiles and Cancer," which will appear in its January 2014 issue. The lead author is
Jonathan Samet of the University of Southern California, who was the chair of IARC's 2011 review of the cancer risks of exposure to RF radiation. That same year, President Obama appointed Samet to the National Cancer Advisory Board (
NCAB). After a week of deliberations in Lyon, Samet's panel
designated RF radiation as a possible human carcinogen. Samet's paper has three coauthors, including Schüz; all three are associated with IARC.
Comment: Not to mention the other hazards: