Cluster infantil en Inglaterra

Remember this story, similar to the Coventry child cancer, although the court demanded te transmitters were turned off in Spain. Don’t see the same happening in the UK somehow.

Phone masts start child cancer scare

Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Guardian

Saturday January 12, 2002

An outbreak of cancer at a primary school in Valladolid, central Spain, and a court order forcing the removal of the nearby telephone transmitters held responsible, have led to demands throughout the country for transmitters to be pulled down.

Four children, aged between five and 10, at the Garcia Quintana primary school have been diagnosed with cancer since 36 powerful transmitters were installed 18 months ago on a building 50 metres away.

Parents refused to send their children back to school this term until the transmitters were switched off and dismantled. A local court backed their demand, the transmitters were turned off, and staff and children returned to their classes on Thursday.

The court has given phone companies three months to remove the transmitters altogether, and the local education authority has decided to close the school until scientists can discover whether the transmitters or something else caused the cancers.

The three cases of leukaemia and one of Hodgkin’s disease diagnosed among 450 pupils is a much greater incidence of child cancer than the national average of 14 in 100,000.

Luis Martin, a doctor who is also a parent at the school, said: "In 32 years there had never been a case of cancer here but since they installed the antennas in 2000 four chil dren have fallen seriously ill.

"We don’t believe this is a coincidence. The antennas were placed so close to the playground that they [the children] have been affected by the electromagnetic waves."

Maria Jose Garcia, whose daughter Carla, 5, is undergoing chemotherapy, said: "The parents of the last child to fall sick are racked with guilt because they think they should have taken him away."

Scientists and the government disagree about the cause of the cluster. Juan Represa, a government adviser, said: "If the antennas were the cause then, taking into account the number across Spain, we would have hundreds of thousands of cases of cancer." Other chemicals may have caused the illnesses, he added.

Yesterday the regional authorities began a study of possible causes, but they admit that they may never find out why the four children, and two more who live in nearby buildings, fell ill.

The parents point to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which has finally shown a link between child cancer and the electromagnetic fields produced by power lines.

"As a result the World Health Organisation now recognises these fields as a probable or possible cause of cancer," Dr Martin said .

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Templars Infant Junior School Coventry CV4 9DA

Four children attending and live near the school have developed
neuroblastoma. Health officials are puzzled. Take a look at the amount of
phone masts around them and ask yourself can this be a coincidence?

Name of Operator T-MOBILE
Operator Site Ref. 99108
Height of Antenna
16 Metres
Frequency Range
1800 MHz
Transmitter Power
26 dBW
Maximum licensed power
32 dBW

GSM

Name of Operator Orange
Operator Site Ref. WAR0115
Height of Antenna
14 Metres
Frequency Range
1800 MHz
Transmitter Power
27.9 dBW
Maximum licensed power
32 dBW
Type of Transmission
GSM

Name of Operator Orange
Operator Site Ref. WAR0115
Height of Antenna
14 Metres
Frequency Range
2100 MHz
Transmitter Power
29.3 dBW
Maximum licensed power
32 dBW
Type of Transmission
UMTS

Name of Operator MMO2
Operator Site Ref. 10985
Height of Antenna
16.5 Metres
Frequency Range
900 MHz
Transmitter Power
20.8 dBW
Maximum licensed power
32 dBW
Type of Transmission
GSM

Name of Operator MMO2
Operator Site Ref. 10985
Height of Antenna
16.5 Metres
Frequency Range
2100 MHz
Transmitter Power
23.2 dBW
Maximum licensed power
32 dBW
Type of Transmission
UMTS

Can this be a coincidence?

Jan 11 2006

Exclusive By Dean Valler

WORRIED parents are demanding an official investigation after four children
in the same area were diagnosed with the same rare form of cancer.
Three of the youngsters with the same life-threatening condition go to the
same school - and all live in the south of Coventry.
Three of the children, live within a few streets of each other in Tile Hill
and one lives a couple of miles away in Cannon Park.
Two of the children - five-year-olds Bethany Keenan and Jordan Accardi -
have captured the hearts of city people, who have raised thousands of pounds
for their treatment.
Today, the Evening Telegraph can reveal that another two children, Charlotte
Moore, aged seven, and five-year-old Dylan Williams, are also fighting
neuroblastoma.
The illness, which affects the nervous system, is so unusual it is diagnosed
in just 100 children in the UK every year.
The call for an investigation has been supported by charities Cancer
Research UK and the Neuroblastoma Society.
Bethany’s mum, Kay Blyth, aged 40, who lives off Broad Lane, in Tile Hill,
Coventry, wants an official medical body to look into any possible links
between the cases.
In October, Bethany completed a year in remission, having been given just a
30 per cent chance of survival when she was diagnosed in August, 2003.
Miss Blyth said: "I believe there has to be some kind of investigation
because it seems very strange to have four cases all within a short distance
of each other.
"There could well be a link somewhere, although I could not speculate about
what it is. If there is, we need to know what it is, so that we know what we
are dealing with."
Dylan Williams, also aged five, attends Templars Primary School, in Templar
Avenue, Tile Hill, the same school as Bethany and one of the other children
with neuroblastoma.
At the end of January he reaches his third year in remission, having been
diagnosed when he was just over a year old.
His parents, Emma Hammond, aged 24, of Ireton Close, Tile Hill, and
25-year-old Kenneth Williams of Maureen Close, Tile Hill, are also backing a
call for an official investigation.
Miss Hammond, who previously lived in Gravel Hill, near Torrington Avenue,
said: "We have had it drummed into us by doctors and surgeons that this is
an extremely rare condition.
"However, if it is so rare, how come it has affected four children who all
live so close to each other? I would back an investigation because at the
very least we need to be sure there is nothing causing this condition."
A third mum, Christine Moore, 46, of Limbrick Avenue, Tile Hill, said her
daughter, Charlotte, also has neuroblastoma and attends Templars Primary
School.
She said the family were living in Gretna Road, south Coventry, when
Charlotte was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of the cancer, aged
just three months.
Charlotte, who attends Sherbourne Fields School, uses a wheelchair, having
developed the tumour in her back.
Mrs Moore said: "We obviously have no idea whether there is a particular
cause but I think an investigation would be a good idea.
"Is there a link with pesticides, whether from fields or in the food we
buy?"
Jordan Accardi, of Cannon Park, Coventry, is back in a New York cancer
hospital for further treatment.
He first travelled to America in September after more than £160,000 was
raised by Coventry people to pay for his treatment.
Jordan and his family are likely to have to travel to and from the US for up
to two years.
The expert’s view: Unusual - but may not be linked
ANTONYA Cooper, chairman of The Neuroblastoma Society, described the number
of cases in Coventry as "very unusual and very disturbing".
The society, founded in 1982, is a registered charity and support group
which is financing £300,000 of research into the condition this year.
Mrs Cooper said: "This is very unusual and also very disturbing and as a
parent I would want to know why. The Neuroblastoma Society certainly would
back any investigation. We would give verbal support and use our contacts to
approach specialists in the field.
"I suspect, as has happened before, that any such investigation will prove
no obvious geographical link for the occurrence of neuroblastoma in these
children."
Prof John Toy, medical director of Cancer Research UK, said: "If a cluster
of people in the same area all have cancer, it does not necessarily mean
that all of them are from the same cause.
"Cancer is very common, and affects one in three people in the UK. There are
many different causes of cancer and an apparent cluster of cancer cases can
occur by chance."