From Jacques SURBECK commenting on last message on the Toowong breast cancer cluster:: In Nov. 2002, we published a scientific paper showing that a CRT’s screen’s PEMR pulsed electromagnetic radiation (from computers, TV, etc..) is breacking the human’s DNA exposed “in-vitro” during 24 hours… Since our publication (10th European Congress on Health-at-Work, Amsterdam 2002, none
Read more →The breast cancer cluster at the ABC building in Toowong, Queensland has often been examined on this list. In addition, a detailed submission was sent to the ABC expert panel that highlighted the reasons why ELF magnetic fields needed to be thoroughly investigated. http://www.emfacts.com/papers/toowong.pdf ) All this information was sent to David Waters, Secretary of
Read more →Previous messages to this list have highlighted the poor quality investigation of a possible ELF-EMF connection with the breast cancer cluster at the ABC Toowong Studios. – How the expert panel took over two years to even get around to having ELF measurements taken and then all they got was a brief half-day walk-through that
Read more →Power lines in new link to childhood leukaemia From the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/04/ By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 12:01am 21/04/2007A leaked Government-commissioned report has raised fresh fears of a link between power lines and cancer. The draft paper urges ministers to consider banning the building of homes and schools close to overhead high voltage
Read more →From Lachlan Mudge: If possible, please send my thanks to the person responsible for this submission (#687). It’s great to hear from someone with a sound knowledge base saying the types of things we’ve all been thinking about and suspecting for years. I would personally be willing to put a few hundred bucks towards the
Read more →NOTE: The sender requested that his name not by published as he is close to some of the people involved directly with ABC Toowong: I saw your combined “independent perspective” in toowong.pdf I am also convinced that there may be an LF (or IF) factor involved in the acceleration of breast carcinogenesis. There must be
Read more →Below is my latest communication (March 22) with Dr. Bruce Armstrong, head of the so-called Expert Panel that directed the investigation at the ABC studios at Toowong Qld. After all this time it is a sad fact that we still do not know the ELF magnetic field exposures for the women who worked in the
Read more →From Lloyd Morgan: Your comment in the EMFacts blog (#682) is the appropriate response. Not talking to the women who have breast cancer to know where they spend their time and how they moved through the building is tantamount to ignoring the reality that their patterns of use in the building is very likely to
Read more →After Dr. Bruce Arnstrong refused to release the ARPANSA ELF report on Toowong several weeks ago (Message# 651) his committee has come under pressure to release it. As one ABC reporter said to me “alot of people would like to see what is in it”. Having a change of heart Armstrong has now released the
Read more →The transcript of last weeks ABC Australian Story on the Toowong breast cancer cluster is now available on the ABC web site: http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2007/s1870108.htm From the intro: 12/03/2007 Australian Story looks inside a health and workplace crisis that’s been described as a first in Australia and possibly the world. Arguably it’s a situation that could have
Read more →Australian Senate Thursday 1 st March 2007 Question on Notice Question on notice to the Minister for Health Regarding the breast cancer cluster which led to the evacuation of the ABC studios in Toowong, Queensland: 1) what causal role did extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields have? 2) has ELF been eliminated as a cause
Read more →Last Monday’s ABC Australian Story featured some of the women directly affected by breast cancer while working at the ABC studios in Toowong, Queensland. The following news item is taken from that documentary. Next week the second part of the Australian Story two-part documentary will cover the investigation that was undertaken to try and identify
Read more →The following was sent in by Sylvie in France who has taken an interest in the Toowong ABC breast cancer story, or as it is shaping up to be, a cover-up. Last I heard the reference committee representing the union and women will be requesting the full ARPANSA ELF report from Dr. Bruce Armstrong. Stay
Read more →This morning I rang the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) about when their Toowong ABC extremely low frequency (ELF) report would be available. The reply was that it was sent to the ABC’s expert panel head, Dr. Bruce Armstrong the previous week and to contact him for a copy. I immediately rang
Read more →The Courier Mail (Australia) February 19, 2007 Monday First with the news Edition Cancer fight ‘cost my job’ BYLINE: Melanie Christiansen ‘I believe I was taken off air because of my role in supporting breast cancer victims and my ABC colleagues’ Ian Eckersley A SENIOR ABC sports presenter has quit his job, claiming he has
Read more →If you check the ABC’s web site, titled “General Information – Incidence of Breast Cancer, ABC Toowong” you will see where the expert panel has concluded: “To date, technical testing on the site has cleared the technology in use on the site as a possible cause”. This is interesting considering that the date is 21
Read more →From Milt Bowling: Don, This reminds me of the situation in Canada a number of years ago when Lorna Wilson and two workmates developed breast cancer. A number of other employees at the same location were also stricken with cancer. The staff and equipment were moved to another location. Then, and only then. “experts”
Read more →I received a call yesterday from an ABC journalist who recently visited the Toowong studios. He said that much of the electrical equipment is being removed from the building. Apparently the desks where the women worked have been stripped of electrical equipment and so further testing would be difficult. While the so-called expert panel waits
Read more →‘Sylvie’ sent in the following old news article on Toowong from way back in August of last year that is very telling. Note where it states: “In a new turn of events, electromagnetic tests will now be conducted that can detect extremely low radiation levels”. Considering the urgency of the investigation it still took ARPANSA
Read more →The below is apparently all the expert committee have received to date from ARPANSA in relation to their December ELF survey of the Toowong ABC studios. No mention is made of the all important measurements at the workstations of the women with cancer. Spot measurements taken at “various locations” is so vague as to be
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