several people in my street have contracted cancer, how can i find out if it is the area causing it?

Question

all houses are made from brick with a metal structure and there are multiple electricity pylon's and phone mast's in the street

Answer 1

Yes it is a very valid concern and you may want to consider the following before proceeding further;
a). Are the cancer types similar?
b). Are the electricity pylons purely for low voltage distribution to the home?
c). Are there multiple cell phone towers?

If you answered yes to all of the above then maybe as far as any possible link between mobile phone towers and cancer is concerned, there is no conclusive evidence that mobile phone towers can be a potential source of cancer. At the moment! Even at high levels of exposure, there is no substantial evidence that the radio waves, these towers produce, can either cause or contribute to cancer. Although research in this area has been extensive, there is no laboratory or epidemiological evidence at all that radio waves at the power levels associated with public exposure to radio waves from mobile phone base station antennas are associated with cancer. Having said that and as a telecommunications engineer, there are very real health concerns regarding radio frequency waves and strict safety standards that have been developed, with respect to acceptable exposure levels and safe operating distances from antennas, such as those located on the mobile radio towers.
In Australia, we recently had an incident where several staff at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology on the top floor of a building where all diagnosed with brain tumours within a 5-year period! Located on the roof of this building was a cellular mobile base station. The official response was that it was just a coincidence. Yeh right!!!
Proper design of mobile phone base station antennas should generally meet all safety standards by a wide margin.
For example, a mobile phone base station antenna, mounted 20 m off the ground and operated at the maximum possible intensity, might produce a power density as high as 0.02 mW/cm-sq on the ground near the antenna site; but ground level power densities will more often be in the 0.0001 to 0.002 mW/cm-sq range. These power densities are far below all the safety standards, and the standards themselves are set far below the level where potentially hazardous effects have been seen.
Close to the base of the antenna site, the power density may be greater at elevations above the base of the antenna site (for example, on the second floor of a building or on a hill) but the mobile phone operator must still ensure that the general public exposure limits are not exceeded. Power densities inside buildings will be lower than outside.
The power densities on the ground will generally be less than 1% of the general public exposure limits.
However, there are some circumstances under which an improperly designed mobile phone base station antenna installation could violate safety standards.
Safety standards for public exposure could be exceeded if antennas were mounted in such a way that they expose personnel if they are within 15 m directly in front of the antennas themselves. This could arise for antennas mounted on or near the roofs of existing buildings or have been tilted. So this may be worth checking out in your particular instance.
Having said all that and the fact that the evidence is somewhat inconclusive, I would be reluctant to live or work in close proximity of a mobile radio tower, as it may turn out that in the future the once thought of safe levels of radiation were not that safe at all!

Just as a side I also have cancer and have worked near radio installations and climbed many radio towers as part of my work, but always conscious of maintaining a "safe" position in relation to the electromagnetic radiation field of the antennas. Did this contribute to my cancer? I guess one will never really know!

Answer 2

I'm afraid that it would be difficult to prove, there are inconclusive studies and where big business is concerned its hard to strive to raise a question of doubt, I think many councils take money from allowing phone masts and there is no legislation which says they are not allowed (except I think in close proximity to schools)
I have attached a link from an old New Scientist, you could do a search on there for others, and look in their blogs
I'd be inclined to get your local newspaper to do a feature and maybe get questions asked that way, maybe get your local Friends of the Earth involved.
Good luck
EDIT
Ask the paper to hire a EMF (electromagnetic frequency) meter and check what the levels are there and maybe compare to near the council offices or the 'posh' end of town

Answer 3

you will possibly think of that smoking pot could be worse than smoking cigarettes or a minimum of as unfavourable.... yet once you google "marijuana + cancer" the outcomes that arise are to the choice. certainly some have been even pointing out that marijuana replaced right into a help against lung cancer. i replaced into shocked. those have been web content inclusive of webmd, sciencedaily and washingtonpost. i do no longer smoke weed or cigarettes and am no longer judging the two.

Answer 4

Cancer affects 1 in 3 people. I think it is coincidence. Electricity pylons and metal structures do not cause cancer.

And, oh, if you're going to croak it soon - it may be worth learning that you don't put apostrophes in plurals, love.

Answer 5

You can't, without doing a full 10 year study which includes the entire lifestyles of everybody in the street.

If you're that bothered, move!

Answer 6

contact your local state health dept,cancer division,and talk to someone about your theory and they will look into this........

Answer 7

Don't take any chances - move if you are not happy there