WHO Review Finds Cancer Risk in RF-Exposed Animals

WHO Review Finds Cancer Risk in
RF-Exposed Animals

At Odds with ICNIRP, Most Health Agencies
Microwave News, April 27, 2025, Last updated April 28, 2025

A major review of animal studies has found reliable evidence that RF radiation increases the risk of cancer.

The new systematic review was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) EMF office in Geneva as part of its ongoing assessment of RF health effects (more here).

It concludes: “[T]here is evidence that RF EMF exposure increases the incidence of cancer in experimental animals with the [certainty of evidence] being strongest for malignant heart schwannomas and gliomas” (brain tumors).

This finding runs counter to the stated views of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the WHO itself, as well those of most national health agencies.

The open access paper, which runs more than 75 manuscript pages in the journal Environment International, was published on April 25.

‘High Certainty’ Cellphone Radiation Linked to Cancer in Animals, WHO Study Finds

‘High Certainty’ Cellphone Radiation Linked to Cancer in Animals, WHO Study Finds

Experts say it’s time for the World Health Organization to classify wireless radiation as a “known human carcinogen,” after a review commissioned by the organization concluded there is “high certainty” evidence that cellphone radiation exposure causes two types of cancer in animals.

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., childrenshealthdefense.org, April 28, 2025

A systematic review commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded there is “high certainty” evidence that cellphone radiation exposure causes two types of cancer in animals.

The WHO-backed review, published online April 25 in Environmental International, determined radiofrequency-electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted by cellphones and other wireless devices were linked to an increased risk of malignant gliomas in the brain and malignant schwannomas, or nerve tumors, in the heart in studies on animals. The review noted that both tumor types had previously been found in studies on humans.

The WHO’s review also concluded there is “moderate certainty” evidence that cellphone radiation exposure causes an increased risk of rare liver and adrenal gland tumors.

Continue reading:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/high-certainty-cellphone-radiation-cancer-animals-who-study/

Radiofrequencies and cancer: this WHO monograph reshuffles the deck

Radiofrequencies and cancer: this WHO monograph reshuffles the deck
By : Phonegate Team • 29 Apr 2025

For over twenty years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been publishing monographs assessing the risk between radiofrequencies and cancer. This new monograph, the tenth of eleven planned, marks a notable break: whereas previous monographs concluded that the risk was limited or uncertain, this one points to more robust animal evidence and highlights worrying signals for public health.

In 2011, the IARC classified radiofrequencies as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2B), on the basis of an increased risk of glioma in intensive users of cell phones. Since then, most monographs have downplayed the risks, despite the massive increase in worldwide exposure and the proliferation of scientific studies.

Enhanced animal evidence on several tumor types

Monograph 2025 is based on 52 animal studies, including 20 long-term bioassays, and concludes that there is a high level of evidence (“high certainty”) for an increase in certain cancers in male rats exposed to radiofrequencies:

• Cerebral gliomas: significant increase in male rats exposed to high SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) levels (up to 6 W/kg).
• Cardiac schwannomas: increased risk in male rats, with dose-response effects observed in two independent long-term studies.
• Hepatoblastomas and lung tumors: significant increase in male mice exposed to CDMA (3G)-modulated radiofrequencies.

Consult the full monograph: Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on cancer in laboratory animal studies, a systematic review (Mevissen et al., 2025, Environment International)

Continue reading:
https://phonegatealert.org/en/radiofrequencies-cancer-who-monograph-reshuffles-the-deck/

The True Consequences of Chernobyl (Guest Article by Alison Katz) - Re-posting

Re-posting on the 39th anniversary of the 1986 catastrophe.
26 April 2025

This guest post is in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe.

Alison Katz is a member of Independent WHO: The organization was created to demand a revision of the “WHA 12-40” agreement signed between WHO and the IAEA. Every working day since 26 April 2007, this organization has maintained a vigil across from WHO Headquarters in Geneva to demand the independence of WHO and expose the truth about the effects of radioactive contamination caused by the activities of the civil and military nuclear industry.

Here is her article:

WHO’s review on cell phone radiation and cancer cannot assure safety, renowned experts say

WHO’s review on cell phone radiation and cancer cannot assure safety, renowned experts say

Theodora Scarato, ehn.org, March 14, 2025

Photo by vadymvdrobot on Envato

Four critiques published by distinguished U.S. and international experts have documented the science showing that a World Health Organization (WHO) funded review on cell phone radiation cannot conclude cell phones are safe due to several critical errors, omissions, and conflicts of interests.

In short:

• Experts state that the WHO review failed to follow best practices for statistical analyses, and relied heavily on lower quality and less precise, industry-tied studies.
• The WHO review’s conclusion omitted findings of large scale animal experiments, which have demonstrated “clear evidence” of an association with cancer.
• The WHO’s conclusions are not in alignment with seven meta-analyses that have found significant evidence of an association between heavy, long-term cellphone use (greater than ten years) and tumor risk.
• Several authors of the WHO review have conflicts of interest, including a history of receiving industry funding for their research. .
• All four critiques emphasize the need for a public health approach that minimizes exposure to cell phone radiation, especially for children.

WHO Cell Phone Radiation Cancer Study is “Seriously Flawed”

New Publication: WHO Cell Phone Radiation Cancer Study is “Seriously Flawed”

icbe-emf.org, 15 January 2025

Scientists conclude the review does not assure wireless safety, and should not be used to set public health policy

Media Contact:
Joel Moskowitz PhD
Email: jmm@berkeley.edu

A Letter to the Editor published in the journal Environment International by the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) concludes that a recently published World Health Organization (WHO) systematic review and meta-analysis on cell phone radiofrequency radiation (RFR) and cancer risk by Karipidis et al. (2024) is scientifically flawed and does not provide a reliable assessment of the evidence on brain cancer risk associated with the use of cell phones and other wireless technologies. The ICBE-EMF are experts in researching the health effects of RFR from wireless devices and infrastructure including cell phones, Wi-Fi and cell towers.

ICBE-EMF’s scientific leadership points to numerous significant flaws in the WHO review that combine to understate the cancer risk from wireless exposure and undermine the validity of the study’s conclusions, raising serious concerns about its impact on public health policy.

World Health Organization’s EMF Project’s Systemic Reviews on the Association Between RF Exposure and Health Effects Encounter Challenges

In a newly-published paper, one of the world's most renowned scientists who has studied the effects of radio frequency (RF) radiation, Dr. James C. Lin, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago and a former ICNIRP Commissioner, attacks the World Health Organization's systematic reviews of the research on RF radiation that dismiss the substantial evidence for adverse biological and health effects.

World Health Organization’s EMF Project’s Systemic Reviews on the Association Between RF Exposure and Health Effects Encounter Challenges [Health Matters]
by James C. Lin, IEEE, 12 Dec. 2024

James C. Lin concludes:

"The criticisms and challenges encountered by the published WHO-EMF systematic reviews are brutal, including calls for retraction. Rigorous examinations of the reviews reveal major concerns. In addition to the scientific quality, they appear to have a strong conviction of nothing but heat to worry about with RF radiation. The unsubtle message that cellular mobile phones do not pose a cancer risk is clear. The reviews exhibit a lack of serious concerns for conflicts of interest and display unequivocal support for the recently promulgated ICNIRP RF exposure guidelines for human safety.

From its inception, WHO-EMF had close ties with ICNIRP, a private organization, frequently referred to as the WHO-EMF project’s scientific secretariat [18]. What may not be as apparent for the WHO-EMF systematic reviews is the lack of diversity of views. A large number of ICNIRP commissioners and committee members are listed as authors for the WHO-EMF systematic reviews; some also served as lead authors. These concerns advance issues of reviewer independence and potential for conflicts of interest."

Link to paper and pdf:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10795296

Systematic reviews (=mess) on wireless radiation and health, caused by secretive EMF Project and… lobby…

Prof. Dariusz Leszczynski denounces the chaos of systematic reviews on wireless radiation and health. Has the recent World Health Organization (WHO) study been compromised by the telecoms lobby? Discover his shock analysis.

Systematic reviews (=mess) on wireless radiation and health, caused by secretive EMF Project and… lobby…
betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com, 6 October 2024

In recent weeks there has been a lot of debate about the recently published review of studies that examined the potential effect of wireless radiation on the development of brain cancer in humans. This review is part of a series of systematic reviews commissioned by the WHO EMF Project. These reviews will be used as the scientific basis for the Environmental Health Criteria evaluation of the impact of wireless radiation on human health. It is necessary to remind everyone that these systematic reviews are not the ‘last word’ but are only a ‘raw material’ for the group of scientists who will use them for the preparation of the Environmental Health Criteria.

The way how the systematic reviews were conceived is, in my opinion, biased and should be considered questionable by any fair-minded scientist or policymaker.

The WHO EMF Project has announced a call for the preparation of systematic reviews and asked the scientific community to participate. The scientists were to organize themselves into teams of experts. Such teams were organized without (?) the participation of the WHO EMF Project and were to be independent of any vested interests – just pure science and expertise.

Continue reading:
https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/systematic-reviews-mess-on-wireless-radiation-and-health-caused-by-secretive-emf-project-and-lobby/

The UN and the WHO – Owned by the Wireless Industry?

The UN and the WHO – Owned by the Wireless Industry?
Guest Post by Sean Alexander Carney of Safe Tech International
Posted on Patricia Burke's Substack, "Safe Tech International", 25 Sept. 2024
Researched and written by Sean Alexander Carney for Safe Tech International.

The future: Turning people into transmitters

Through the ubiquitous wireless connectivity promised by the Internet of Things (IoT) humanity and every living thing is turned into a wireless “transmitter.” As this is currently being done without full consent of the population, across the globe – it raises concerns from a health perspective, and a human rights perspective.

Governments rapidly rolling out 5G tell us that exposure guidelines backed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) ensure we are all safe within “set limits” and, that they readily support the wireless IoT for the purpose of developing a data-driven future epitomised by the smart city, a “vision” of a new society propelled by the UN’s politics of “climate change” and “sustainability”.

Phonegate Alert criticizes WHO study on mobile phone risks

Phonegate Alert criticizes WHO study on mobile phone risks
By : Phonegate Team • 19 Sep 2024

Phonegate Alert calls for a critical analysis of the recent WHO study on health risks of mobile phones

Paris, September 18, 2024 – The Phonegate Alert association demands a thorough and independent examination of the results of a recently published study by the World Health Organization (WHO). This study, which concludes there are no risks of brain cancer linked to mobile phone use, raises numerous questions about its methodology and impartiality.

Biased selection? Only 63 studies out of 5,379 retained for WHO analysis

The WHO study screened 5,379 scientific publications published between 1994 and 2022. However, only 63 of them were subjected to in-depth examination, raising questions about the selection criteria.

Among these studies is Mobi-Kids, whose impartiality has been questioned by a Phonegate Alert investigation, revealing serious conflicts of interest with the mobile phone industry. The use of the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to assess the quality of evidence also raises concerns.

GRADE: An unsuitable method for assessing long-term risks of radiofrequencies

Although widely used, the GRADE method has significant limitations in assessing long-term health risks. It favors randomized clinical trials, which are difficult to conduct for prolonged environmental exposures. This approach tends to undervalue observational studies, which are crucial for understanding the long-term effects of radiofrequencies. Moreover, GRADE often minimizes the importance of mechanistic evidence and animal studies, which are essential in this field.

Another WHO RF Review Challenged - More than 99% of Studies on Oxidative Stress Discarded

Another WHO RF Review Challenged
More than 99% of Studies on Oxidative Stress Discarded
microwavenews.com, August 21, 2024, Last updated August 23, 2024

A third RF systematic review commissioned by the World Health Organization’s EMF Project is under fire. This one is on RF–induced oxidative stress. Last month, two other WHO reviews —on pregnancy outcomes and on tinnitus— were both called into question as critics called for them to be retracted.

A team of 14 from six countries, led by Felix Meyer of the German Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), identified 11,599 studies on oxidative stress in the frequency range 800-2450 MHz. They then eliminated 11,543 of them as not meeting their criteria for inclusion. Of the remaining 56, there are 45 animal studies and 11 cellular studies.

THE ROAD TO GENEVA PEOPLE'S CONVOY 30TH MAY-1ST JUN 2024

An event of global importance.

(We are posting more information about the status of the WHO health guidelines below.)

THE ROAD TO GENEVA PEOPLE'S CONVOY
30TH MAY-1ST JUN 2024

RALLY AND MARCH

1ST JUNE 2024 - Place des Nations - GENEVA - 13.30

Join in the convoy alongside thousands of freedom lovers to Geneva to be part of our historic rally on Saturday 1st June

Learn more at RoadToGeneva.com

Update 20 May: The Treaty/Agreement on Pandemics will not be voted on at the WHO, due to a lack of consensus between the parties. However, the International Health Regulations (IHR), if adopted and not rejected within 10 months, will come into force in May 2025, with all the same dangers, including the possibility of declaring a pandemic on a regional or global scale without having to consult Member States.

ICNIRP Revamp: Closer Ties to WHO EMF Project

ICNIRP Revamp: Closer Ties to WHO EMF Project

Seven New Commissioners
Akimasa Hirata To Be New Leader

microwavenews.com, 11 Dec. 2023

In November, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) elected a new chair, vice chair and seven new Commissioners to join the remaining five. The new lineup takes over in mid-July 2024.

Yet, despite all the changes, ICNIRP’s outlook and policies are expected to remain much the same. While two medical doctors will be joining the Commission —there are none now— the membership will continue to be dominated by physicists and electrical engineers. ICNIRP’s entrenched thermal dogma will most likely continue to hold sway with cancer risks, and other non-thermal effects downplayed, when not dismissed outright.

Akimasa Hirata, a professor of electrical engineering at Japan’s Nagoya Institute of Technology, will be the next chairman. He has been on the Commission since 2016. Hirata replaces Australia’s Rodney Croft, a psychologist, who leaves after 12 years, the last four as ICNIRP chair. Hirata is the first person from Japan —or any other Asian country— to lead the Commission.

Continue reading:
https://microwavenews.com/news-center/icnirp-revamp-closer-ties-who-emf-project

Geneva - WHO - EMF International Advisory Committee (IAC), 6-8 June 2023 Japanese-Korean ‘NTP Lite’ on the Agenda

ICNIRP Still Runs RF at WHO

Briefing in Geneva This Week -  

EMF International Advisory Committee (IAC), 6-8 June 2023

Japanese-Korean ‘NTP Lite’ on the Agenda

microwavenews.com, 5 June 2023

ICNIRP continues to dominate EMF policies at the WHO, according to documents made available to Microwave News. The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection is a private, self-perpetuating, secretive group whose exposure limits are used around the world.

The documents were recently distributed by Emilie van Deventer, who leads the WHO’s radiation program, as she prepared to host a briefing this week in Geneva for the EMF International Advisory Committee (IAC).

The meeting, which has not been publicized, will offer fresh details on a Japanese-Korean animal study, the slimmed down version of the NTP’s $30 million rat study with “clear evidence” of cancer (the repeat has been called “NTP Lite”). The results of the joint study have been highly anticipated since last November, when the director of IARC said that she is waiting for them before scheduling a new assessment of RF cancer risks.

On the Thirty-Seventh Anniversary of the Chernobyl Catastrophe

On the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe
by Robert James Parsons, Independent Journalist, 26 April 2023

The article below was published in 2016 on the thirtieth anniversary of the catastrophe of Chernobyl. Little has changed since then. The World Health Organization still insists that the catastrophe (the only appropriate word for what happened -- and is still happening) caused a mere 51 deaths.

The WHO's refusal to acknowledge the catastrophe's stupendous implications and ever greater ramifications for the life of the planet as time goes on prompted a civil society organization in France and French-speaking Switzerland (Independent WHO) to set up a vigil at the entry of the WHO. The vigil, which lasted ten years and had at least one person there every working day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., demanded that the WHO end the stranglehold that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has over the WHO by virtue of a legally binding agreement that gives the IAEA veto power over anything that the WHO might wish to undertake in the area of radiation and health.

WHO announces members of the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks

Due to the importance of this message, we are posting the entire contents of the message received from Dr. Joel Moscowitz, University of California, Berkeley, on 20 December 2022.

WHO announces members of the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks

[Comments of Dr. Moscowitz]:

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the 21 experts selected for the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks. These individuals are responsible for examining ten research reviews and making recommendations for the WHO Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) Monograph on Radio Frequency (RF) Fields and Health Risks to be published in 2023.

The list of 21 experts selected by the WHO for the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks appears below along with information I compiled regarding task group members' EMF publications and affiliations with ICNIRP, the self-selected group that recommends RF exposure limits which are promoted by the WHO.

Eleven of the 21 individuals have current or past affiliations with ICNIRP. Most of the other individuals have published or presented papers defending ICNIRP's RF exposure limits. A recent study found that ICNIRP heavily cites its own members' research and that of their close colleagues to support the ICNIRP exposure limits (Nordhagen and Flydal, 2022).

France: ANSES & IARC Scientific Conference - Paris, 23 November 2022 - "Radiofrequencies and Health: Research in a Fast-Moving Environment"

UPDATE:  The provisional program is now available:

https://ptolemee.com/radiofrequences/programme-en.html

Radiofrequencies and health: research in a fast-moving environment

ANSES & IARC scientific conference - Paris, 23 November 2022

Applications of radiofrequency communication technologies have developed considerably over the last 20 years and now include the mobile web, contactless authentication, connected objects, and more. In a context where uses of these technologies, the conditions of exposure and the frequencies used are rapidly changing, and given the disorders and symptoms that have been attributed to them, the research community continues to be highly active in this area, regularly producing new knowledge on the human health effects of radio waves.

International Public Call to the World Health Organization for Lower Electromagnetic Field Exposure Limits

International Public Call to the World Health Organization for Lower EMF Exposure Limits -

PETITION TO ACCOMPANY LETTER BELOW. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY

https://www.change.org/p/letter-to-the-who-for-lower-emf-exposure

Letter and petition will be delivered to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in April

To: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)

International Public call for Protection from
Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposure

We write as experts in bioelectromagnetics with grave concerns about the public health and environmental impacts of exponentially increasing use of wireless radiating devices relying on radiofrequencey (RF) and extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic field (EMF) throughout the world today. As the authors of more than a thousand relevant peer-reviewed publications on this topic and concerned citizens, we urge the WHO to convene an independent global Commission on wireless radiation and health, and recommend biologically-based EMF exposure limits.

Will Dr. Emilie Van Deventer, Responsible for the World Health Organization's EMF Project, Answer Questions on Transparency?

WILL THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DR. VAN DEVENTER ANSWER QUESTIONS ON TRANSPARENCY?
Environmental Health Trust, 3 November 2020

TRANSPARENCY NEEDED: UNANSWERD QUESTIONS ASKED OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

(Choice of image by "Towards
Better Health")

Environmental Health Trust and numerous expert scientists have written the WHO EMF Project D. Van Deventer to ask critical questions related to the WHO EMF Project Factsheets and Research Review. Questions were asked in 2019 and again in 2020 but EHT has yet to recive any responses.

Remember, the WHO EMF Project is a different entity than the WHO International Agency for the Research on Cancer (IARC).

The IARC vets experts for conflicts of interest and industry ties and has classified RF as a Class 2 B possible carcinogen, whereas the EMF Project (also under the WHO umbrella) is criticized for a lack of transparency and industry loyalty. See (Hardell 2017) published in the International Journal for Oncology with details on the industry ties of the WHO EMF Project.

Letter sent on November 1, 2020 after numerous emails that went unanswerd.

Switzerland: Mobile Telephony and Radiation: A Group of Experts without Conflict of Interest Denounces a Biased Evaluation

Mobile telephony and radiation: a group of radiation experts without conflict of interest denounces a biased evaluation

9 January 2020

Attention! The links below to the letter in English and in German work only if you are logged into Facebook.

In a letter to the President of Switzerland dated January 7, Dr. Lennart Hardell and twenty-two radiation experts with no conflict of interest, including Dr. Franz Adlkofer, Prof. Dominique Belpomme, Dr. David O. Carpenter, Dr. Paul Héroux, Dr. Henry Lai, and Dr. med. Gerd Oberfeld, challenge the biased conclusions of the health risk assessment of mobile telephony in Switzerland.

The experts with no conflicts of interest dispute, for example, Martin Röösli's assertion that "no health effects have been consistently proven below the set emission limit values".

The experts without a conflict of interest believe that the report "Mobile Telephony and Radiation" published in November contains an assessment that is "scientifically inaccurate and contradicts the opinion of the majority of scientists in this field".