Electric Blanket Use and Breast Cancer on Long Island

Abstract

The results of this large investigation are consistent with those of most previous studies, and do not support the hypothesis that electric blanket use is associated with increased breast cancer risk.

Impact of Environmental Contaminants on Breast Cancer / Wpływ Zanieczyszczenia Środowiska Na Raka Piersi

“…By contrast to the hypothesis that exposure to EMF can increase the risk of breast cancer by inhibiting the normal nocturnal rise in melatonin levels, in a large, 2-stage, population-based case-control investigation of breast cancer no association was found with breast cancer for ever-use of electric blankets, current or former use, use directly on the body, or use throughout the night in either pre-or postmenopausal women (range of adjusted odds ratios for ever vs. never use: 0.9-1.2) [285]. Exposure to residential magnetic fields was not found to be associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer also by Davis et al [286].…”

The effects of extremely low frequency magnetic fields on mutation induction in mice

“…However, currently no association to breast cancer risk has been reported in either pre-or post-menopausal women using electric blankets (Gammon et al, 1998;Laden et al, 2000;Zheng et al, 2000b;Kabat et al, 2003). An exception is from a Norwegian case-control study (Kliukiene et al, 2004), where exposures were calculated based on nearby power lines.…”

Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields exposure and female breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis based on 24,338 cases and 60,628 controls

“…After examined carefully according to the inclusion criteria, our final pool of eligible studies included 15 casecontrol studies (published in 13 different papers, as two papers by Kabat et al [9] and London et al [10] both include two different series of cases and controls) with 24,338 cases and 60,628 controls [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Table 1 shows the characteristics of the studies included for this metaanalysis.…”

“…Of the 15 studies, five studies were occupational exposure [11,12,16,17,19], and 10 studies were residential exposure [9, 10, 13-15, 18, 20, 21] including five electronic blanket exposure [9,14,20,21]. Five studies provided data on ER status [9,12,13,17,19], seven on the premenopausal status [9,[11][12][13][14]19] and eight on postmenopausal status [9, 11-14, 16, 19]. Subgroup analyses were based on these data above.…”