What have nongovernmental organizations concluded about EMFs and cancer?
A number of organizations have issued public statements about the possibility of an association between EMF exposure and cancer. The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, in an April 1995 analysis, assessed current research findings linking occupational EMF exposure and cancer. About leukemia, the report found that while the data are too inconsistent to establish a cause-and-effect relationship, “there is enough evidence of association to raise concern.” Evidence on EMFs and brain cancer was “sketchy,” but the report noted that “the results of the Savitz study are likely to fuel greater interest in the hypothesis that EMFs can cause brain cancer.” The American Physical Society, an association of physicists, issued a statement in April 1995 on the overall scientific evidence relating to EMFs and public health. The statement read in part: “The scientific literature and the reports of reviews by other panels show no consistent, significant link between cancer and power line fields … From th
