December 3, 2008

To: Principal Investigators of Interphone Study Groups

Australia

Dr Bruce Armstrong brucea@health.usyd.edu.auDr Graham Giles Graham.Giles@cancervic.org.au

New Zealand

Dr Alistair Woodward a.woodward@aukland.ac.nz

Israel

, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki siegals@gertner.health.gov.il

Italy

Dr Susanna Lagorio susanna.lagorio@iss.it

Canada

Dr Daniel Krewski dkrewski@uottawa.caDr Jack Siemiatycki j.siemiatycki@umontreal.caWe understand that each of you has participated in the Interphone Study Group on variousaspects (brain tumors, acoustic neurinoma, parotid gland tumors) and cell phone use, and thatyour study results remain unpublished. After four years, results have been published fromeight different countries but some results remain unpublished (see Exhibit 1).We ask for your cooperation in publishing your study results in the very near future. We havebeen in recent contact with Dr. Elizabeth Cardis. She

has provided contact information foreach of you so we can

directly obtain these results through your publication of them in thepeer-reviewed literature.This will enable scientists and other experts not directly involved in the Interphone studies toget the whole pattern of results without further delay. Thank you for your kind support.

With best personal regards,The BioInitiative Working Group by:Martin Blank, PhDmb32@columbia.eduMichael Kundi, PhDmichael.kundi@meduniwien.ac.atCarl Blackman, PhDcfb1@bellsouth.netCindy Sage, MAsage@silcom.comDavid Carpenter, MDcarpent@uamail.albany.eduDavid GeeDavid.Gee@eea.europa.euLennart Hardell, MD, PhDlennart.hardell@orebroll.seOlle Johansson, PhDolle.johansson@ki.seHenry Lai, PhDhlai@u.washington.eduKjell Hansson Mild, PhDkjell.hansson.mild@radfys.umu.seEugene Sobel, PhDsobel55@earthlink.netcc. Professor Elisabeth Cardis ecardis@creal.cat

Exhibit 1

Interphone studies from 13 different countries.

No = results have not been published, Yes = results have been published

CountryGliomaAcoustic neuromaMeningioma

AustraliaNoNoNoCanadaNoNoNoJapanYes YesYes New ZealandNoNoNoIsraelNoNoNoItalyNoNoNoFranceYesYesYesGermanyYes YesYesUKYesYesYesDenmarkYesYesYesFinlandYesYesYes NorwayYes YesYesSwedenYesYesYes

References:

S. Lönn, A. Ahlbom, P. Hall, M. Feychting, Long-term mobile phone use and brain tumor risk, Am. J. Epidemiol. 161 (2005) 526-535. SwedenH. Christensen, J. Schüz, M. Kosteljanetz, H. Poulsen, J. Boice Jr, J. McLaughlin, et al,Cellular telephones and risk for brain tumors: a population-based, incident case-control study, Neurology 64 (2005) 1189-1195. Denmark S. Hepworth, M. Schoemaker, K. Muir, A. Swerdlow, MJA. van Tongeren, PA. McKinney,Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: case-control study, BMJ 332 (2006) 883-887.UK J. Schüz, E. Böhler, G. Berg, B. Schlehofer, I. Hettinger, K. Schlaefer, et al., Cellular phones,cordless phones, and the risks of glioma and meningioma (Interphone Study Group,Germany), Am. J. Epidemiol. 163 (2006) 512-520.