{"doi":"10.47461/isoes.2023.dasgupta","title":"Comparison of electromagnetic radiation exposure including its cancer outcome cases between cancer alley and non-cancer alley parishes in Louisiana","abstract":"Radiation from electromagnetic field had been discussed as a potential source of various health hazards for more than the last 30 years.Ionizing fields with frequencies greater than 1015 Hz give rise to free radicals in the human cells by rearranging electrons in the absorbing molecules surface.At low frequencies, especially below 10 MHz, the penetration of electrical fields into tissues increases with an increase in frequency.However, the magnetic fields do not follow the same principle.The absorption of electromagnetic field energy in the human body is highest between 30 MHz and 300 MHz.Studies correlating the exposure to electromagnetic field and occurrence of specific cancers, especially in a dose response way, are scarce.A study by Khan et. al. (2021) emphasized that time of exposure correlates to magnitude of exposure and hence the outcome of the exposure.The results of this study showed hazard ratio was highest (2.86; CI : 1.00 -8.15) when the subjects were exposed to more than 3 years.The results were particularly consistent for childhood exposure.Occupational exposure to the workers working in close contact to the power lines have been explored in the literature.Underrepresented communities like poor African American communities living closer to the Cancer Alley in Louisiana have few or no access to good healthcare in the Louisiana.They are exposed to radiation due to its proximity to the power lines.The hypothesis of our research is that one potent source of cancer exposure might be electromagnetic fields radiating from the power grids that is present in higher numbers in Cancer Alley than the rest of Parishes in Louisiana.This might be contributing to the higher cancer cases in Cancer Alley.Through a literature survey and cancer registry database, we aim to compare and contrast between the 'Cancer alley' and non-cancer alley parishes for the exposure to electromagnetic radiation coming from the power lines.We aim to compare and contrast cancer cases (especially cancer of the reproductive organs and breast tissue between areas that have high and low density of electrical power lines.The research aims to benefit the Louisiana residents, especially the working population communities residing in the Cancer Alley region of Louisiana.The research aims to focus on the electric grid miniature versions which are called microgrids that have self-storage capacity.Unlike electrical power lines, they do not emit hazardous radiation.","journal":null,"year":2023,"id":413593,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9602,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[],"reference_count":17,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:21:57.641539Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}