Telecommunications health and safety: What must not be neglected are overall cancer rates in chronic effects in NTP's lifelong RF exposure study

Understandably, most accounts of the US National Toxicology Program's (NTP's) final report have focused on the statistically significant finding of “clear evidence” that both GSM- and CDMA-modulated 900 MHz wireless radio-frequency (RF) radiation led to the development of malignant schwannoma, a rare form of tumor in the heart of male rats. Moreover, unusual patterns of cardiomyopathy, or damage to heart tissue, were observed in both RF-exposed male and female Sprague-Dawley rats compared with concurrent control animals, although the findings for female rats were deemed as providing only uncertain or “equivocal” evidence for schwannomas and malignant gliomas, compared to concurrent controls [1, 2].