Do other opinions exist concerning EMFs, melatonin and cancer induction?
The possible effects of EMFs on melatonin (and on issues of health in general) are controversial, and while the conclusions in the AGNIR report would appear to be consistent with the views of many scientists and expert groups, others place a different interpretation on the experimental data and arrive at different conclusions. In short, they suggest that exposure to power frequency EMFs may disrupt melatonin and so increase the risk of cancer or other diseases. For example, it has recently been suggested that magnetic fields may increase the risk of childhood leukemia via melatonin disruption (Henshaw and Reiter, 2005). It remains to be seen whether the increased risk in childhood leukaemia that has been found following long-term exposure in the home to magnetic fields (above about 0.4 µT) can be explained by changes in the timing or extent of melatonin production. As yet no direct evidence is available to support the hypothesis. The issue of childhood leukaemia was outside the remit o
