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Collegium Ramazzini asks IARC to re-evaluate the cancer hazard of radiofrequency fields

October 20, 2026 (EMFS)
Oct 19, 2026 (original)
Source: Environmental Health Sciences
Source category: Advocacy/NGO
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Environmental Health Sciences reports: The Collegium Ramazzini, an independent academy of 180 physicians and scientists from 45 countries working on the environmental and occupational causes of disease, issued a statement on 19 October 2026 asking the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to re-evaluate radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. IARC, the World Health Organization's cancer agency, last assessed them in 2011 as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B). It points to the 2018 rat bioassays from the US National Toxicology Program and Italy's Ramazzini Institute, a 2024 analysis that found tumour-linked gene changes in exposed rats after one year, and the WHO-sponsored review of animal cancer studies by Mevissen and colleagues that found the strongest evidence for malignant heart schwannomas and gliomas in exposed animals.

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"The purpose of this statement is to call attention to emerging studies that have added significantly to appreciating and understanding the capacity of exposures to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF) to cause or contribute to human cancers, and to call on the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) to re-evaluate RF EMF, as recommended with high priority by recent Advisory Groups to Recommend Priorities for the IARC Monographs during 2020-2024 and 2025-2029 (IARC 2024)."

— Collegium Ramazzini

"The Mevissen et al. review concluded that there was high confidence in the evidence linking RF EMF exposures with schwannomas of the heart and moderate to high confidence in the link with gliomas of the brain in rats."

— Collegium Ramazzini

"The Collegium Ramazzini therefore emphasizes, considering the new evidence, the urgent need to re-evaluate radiofrequency cancer hazard by IARC and that any risk assessment by WHO should be based on a cancer hazard evaluation by IARC."

— Collegium Ramazzini

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📍 World (International)

Map: World (International)

Source

Scientists of the Collegium Ramazzini Call for Urgent Review of Wireless Radiation Cancer Hazard ehsciences.org

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