Do magnetic fields cause increased risk of childhood leukemia via melatonin disruption? review

Endpoint

• cancer: childhood leukemia
• endocrine changes: disruption of the nocturnal production of melatonin (suppression in animals and humans); mechanisms of EMF interaction with melatonin

Exposure

• • 16 2/3 Hz (train)
  • 50/60 Hz
  • electric field
  • magnetic field
  • geomagnetic field
• • power transmission line
  • therapeutic/medical device

Study funded by

• Children with Leukaemia Foundation, UK