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No effect of short-term exposure to GSM-modulated low-power microwaves on benzo(a)pyrene-induced tumours in rat.

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Chagnaud, JL, Moreau, JM, Veyret, B · 1999

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Two weeks of GSM radiation exposure showed no effect on chemically-induced tumors in rats at human safety limit levels.

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Researchers exposed rats with chemically-induced tumors to GSM cell phone radiation (900 MHz) for 2 hours daily over 2 weeks to see if the radiation would accelerate cancer development. The study found no effect - the microwave exposure neither sped up nor delayed tumor growth, and didn't affect animal survival rates. The exposure levels used were within current safety limits for human whole-body exposure.

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In view of current interest in the biological effects of amplitude-modulated microwaves arising from the rapid development of mobile communications, the effects of low-level microwaves on cancer development were investigated using a rat sarcoma model.

Two-month-old female Sprague-Dawley rats were treated by injection of benzo(a)pyrene and irradiated ...

Microwave exposure had no effect on the development of tumours. No acceleration or delays in tumour ...

Low-level GSM microwave exposure of rat bearing benzo(a)pyrene-induced tumours had no effect on auto-antibody levels, tumour appearance and survival. The low exposure levels used here correspond to exposure limits for whole-body exposure of human

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Chagnaud, JL, Moreau, JM, Veyret, B (1999). No effect of short-term exposure to GSM-modulated low-power microwaves on benzo(a)pyrene-induced tumours in rat. Int J Radiat Biol 75(10):1251-1256, 1999.
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@article{chagnaud_1999_no_effect_of_shortterm_2967,
  author = {Chagnaud and JL and Moreau and JM and Veyret and B},
  title = {No effect of short-term exposure to GSM-modulated low-power microwaves on benzo(a)pyrene-induced tumours in rat.},
  year = {1999},
  doi = {10.1080/095530099139403},
  url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/095530099139403},
}

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Researchers exposed rats with chemically-induced tumors to GSM cell phone radiation (900 MHz) for 2 hours daily over 2 weeks to see if the radiation would accelerate cancer development. The study found no effect - the microwave exposure neither sped up nor delayed tumor growth, and didn't affect animal survival rates. The exposure levels used were within current safety limits for human whole-body exposure.