An Assessment of Potential Health Effects from Exposure to PAVE PAWS Low-Level Phased-Array Radiofrequency Energy (2005) / Chapter Skim
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Air Force Space Command, is located at the Cape Cod Air Force Station in Cape Cod, Massachusetts (see map that precedes the Public Summary)
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Kennedy asked the U.S. Air Force to fund an independent study through the National Research Council of the National Academies "to examine the health effects of the PAVE PAWS system" and to address, in a follow-on report to the 1979 NRC report, the effects if any, of the PAVE PAWS radar over its two-plus decades of operation.
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Air Force that might show any evidence of biological effects with potential relevance to human-health effects of radiation similar in charactenshcs to PAVE PAWS. The committee found no evidence of any classified, phased-array expenments that either were relevant to the PAVE PAWS exposure conditions or indicated a potential for PAVE PAWS human-health effects.
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To date, those observed elevated cancer-incidence rates among residents of upper Cape Cod have not been adequately explained through previous investigations exploring a variety of envirommental factors including PAVE PAWS. The inability of investigators to explore the possibility of health effects from the PAVE PAWS radar was due principally to the lack of PAVE PAWS RF power-density information at that time.
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Recent waveform and power-density models and measurements by the Air Force and Broadcast Signal Laboratones have enabled some analyses by this committee and enabled a forthcoming health study by the Internahonal Epidemiology Irtstitute. The committee concluded: 6.
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Again, the results indicate that increasing exposure to PAVE PAWS over time has not resulted in an increased incidence of cancer. Summary In summary, based on the available scientific evidence, the committee concludes there are no adverse health effects to the population resulting from continuing or long-term exposure to the PAVE PAWS radiahon.
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The committee recognizes that while biological responses do not necessarily translate into human-health effects, studies on the biological effects of RF exposures should be done that build upon several existing studies demonstrating a statistically significant response to RF exposure, such as the effect of radars on studies of tree growth. Future studies should approximate the PAVE PAWS exposure charactenshcs as closely as possible.
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Future or ongoing health studies should also specifically address possible early age of exposure and/or early age at onset of an adverse health effect. Finally, future epidemiologic studies should not be conducted unless they are expected to have sufficient statistical ability, or so-called power, to be able to detect any possible health effects in the Cape Cod population.
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