Is there a link between childhood cancer and overhead power lines?
Children living close to high-voltage overhead power lines at birth may be at an increased risk of leukemia, finds a large study by Oxford University researchers. But the authors, led by G. Draper, emphasized that these results may be due to chance and further research is needed to find out whether there really is a link. The findings were published in the British Medical Journal. About 1 child in 2000 develops leukemia before the age of 15 years. Although we don’t yet understand its causes, researchers have studied a variety of possible explanations including genetic susceptibility, ionizing radiation, unusual patterns of…
