Cancer incidence vs. FM radio transmitter density.

Background: In 2002, a strong association was highlighted between local melanoma incidence and the number of locally covering main Frequency Modulation (FM) transmitters in Sweden. This study investigated whether an association also exists between melanoma incidence and the average density of main FM transmitters in different European countries.

Methods: Twenty-three different European countries were asked to disclose the number of main transmitters used for the FM broadcasting band (87·5-108 MHz) in the respective country.

Cancer versus FM radio polarization types.

In 2002, a detailed analysis of skin melanoma in 289 Swedish municipalities showed a strong association with the number of horizontally polarized main FM transmitters covering a municipality. Basic antenna theory says that body-resonance and standing waves cannot appear above a metal spring mattress unless the electric field is horizontally polarized. To test the hypothesis that body-resonant radiation can cause increased cancer risk in other European countries, I collected and analysed reported data from 24 countries, among which six were using vertical polarization.

A melanoma trend forecast from 2002 - What happened then?

In 2002, a paper was published that highlighted the strong correlation noticed between melanoma incidence and the number of surrounding frequency modulation (FM) transmitters in the Nordic countries since 1955. In the report the development of future numbers of melanoma cases in Estonia were estimated since they got the FM broadcasting system rolled out not until 1992. Here, we report what happened since then in Estonia regarding melanoma cases per year.

Cancer and body height.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that body-resonant radiation may explain the correlation between body height and cancer risk observed in most countries around the world.

Methods: Data on cancer incidence and body height were collected from different countries and also from different regions within Sweden. Information on local FM broadcasting transmitters was also collected in Sweden to determine whether they correlated with the cancer incidence and body heights reported in each geographical area.

Increasing melanoma-too many skin cell damages or too few repairs?

Skin melanoma rates have been increasing for a long time in many Western countries. The object of this study was to apply modern problem-solving theory normally used to clear industrial problems to search for roots and causes of this medical question. Increasing cancer rates can be due to too many cell damage incidents or to too few repairs.

Comparing lung cancer risks in sweden, USA, and Japan.

Objective. To develop a conceptual model for lung cancer rates to describe and quantify observed differences between Sweden and USA contra Japan. Method.

Is increased mortality from Alzheimer's disease in Sweden a reflection of better diagnostics?

Mortality data were retrieved from the Swedish death registry for the years 1970-2006. This report presents updated information on mortality from Alzheimer's disease (AD) through the year 2006, as well as a statistical model of AD mortality with predictive value. This model was developed based on a mortality risk function acting after a specific time point, either step-wise on the whole population or on an increasing part of it.

Sleep on the right side-Get cancer on the left?

Breast cancer frequently occurs in the left breast among both women and men [R. Roychoudhuri, V. Putcha, H.

Apparent decreases in Swedish public health indicators after 1997-are they due to improved diagnostics or to environmental factors?

The object of this work was to review recent trends in public health in Sweden. Data on different adverse health indicators were collected from official Swedish registries. We found that population health generally improved during the early 1990s but suddenly started to deteriorate from 1997 onwards.

A reduced repair efficiency can explain increasing melanoma rates.

In an earlier study, the author found that the melanoma incidence stayed fairly constant after 30 years of age during the first part of the 20th century in several countries. All birth cohorts, however, continued to show increasing incidence from 1957 onwards, and also after the age of 30 years. Before 1957, cell damage in skin older than about 30 years thus did not seem to be able to generate melanoma, whereas cell damage sustained later could pose a melanoma risk for much longer durations.

The urban decline of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus): a possible link with electromagnetic radiation.

During recent decades, there has been a marked decline of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) population in the United Kingdom and in several western European countries. The aims of this study were to determine whether the population is also declining in Spain and to evaluate the hypothesis that electromagnetic radiation (microwaves) from phone antennae is correlated with the decline in the sparrow population. Between October 2002 and May 2006, point transect sampling was performed at 30 points during 40 visits to Valladolid, Spain.

Adverse health indicators correlating with sparsely populated areas in Sweden.

Earlier studies on health characteristics in Sweden have pointed at a sudden trend change in general health indicators around 1997. The decline was worse in areas with less estimated coverage by the mobile phone system; that is, areas where the average output power from mobile phone handsets is expected to be higher. In this study, health parameters were related to the population density, which is a well defined, rather than an estimated variable.

A theory and model to explain the skin melanoma epidemic.

Before 1955, the incidence of malignant melanoma in Nordic countries increased from birth to approximately 30 years of age, when it levelled off to around five cases per 100,000 person-years. From 1957 onwards, the incidence no longer stabilized at the age of 30 years, but continued to increase with age to at least 100 cases per 100,000 person-years. The aims of this study were to examine this sudden change in melanoma trends and to develop an explanatory model.

Differential development of vesicular glutamate transporters in brain: an in vitro study of cerebellar granule cells.

The cerebellar granule cells have been extensively used for studies on metabolism, neurotransmission and neurotoxicology, since they can easily be grown in cultures. However, knowledge about the development of different proteins essential for synaptic transmission in these cells is lacking. This study has characterized the developmental profiles of the vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUTs) and the synaptic vesicle proteins synapsins and synaptophysin in cerebellar granule cells and in co-cultures containing both granule cells and astrocytes.

Increasing incidence of malignant melanoma of skin can be modeled as a response to suddenly imposed environmental stress.

Background: The aim was to determine whether the increasing age-standardized incidence of malignant melanoma of the skin in some countries can be explained by a suddenly imposed environmental stress to the whole population.

Material/methods: Incidence data were retrieved from the cancer registries of the USA and four Nordic countries. A four-parameter incidence model was developed and its parameters were varied to optimally fit age-standardized data from the investigated countries.

Malignant melanoma of the skin - not a sunshine story!

Background: In an earlier study on malignant melanoma incidence in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the USA, we found a strong association between the introduction of FM radio broadcasting at full-body resonant frequencies and increasing melanoma incidence. The purpose of the current study was to review mortality and incidence data for malignant melanoma of the skin in Sweden and its temporal relation to increased "sun-traveling", and to the introduction of FM and TV broadcasting net-works.

Material/methods: Official, published information was collected and displayed graphically.

Melanoma incidence and frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting.

The incidence of melanoma has been increasing steadily in many countries since 1960, but the underlying mechanism causing this increase remains elusive. The incidence of melanoma has been linked to the distance to frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting towers. In the current study, the authors sought to determine if there was also a related link on a larger scale for entire countries.