Study can’t tie EMFs to cancer

Many studies have suggested that elevated occupational exposures to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from power lines, appliances, or large electric motors might spike a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer (SN: 1/10/98, p. 29: http://new.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/1_10_98/bob1.htm). A Swedish study now appears to quash that notion. It found that the 20,400 Stockholm-area women who developed breast cancer over a 23-year period had no higher EMF exposures than did 116,000 cancerfree women from that region.