Epidemiological studies have rather consistently reported an association between childhood leukaemia and 50–60 Hz magnetic fields from power lines, prompting the International Agency for Research on Cancer to classify extremely low-frequency (ELF; ≤300 Hz) magnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans [
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