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Re: Airline personnel
I suspect that other lifestyle factors will be very difficult to factor out.
Absent a dramatic increase, this research will be questionable at best.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: "William Prestwich" <prestwic@MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>;
<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: Airline personnel
> On 23 Oct 2003 at 12:04, William Prestwich wrote:
>
> > Dear Radsafers,
> > I was telling a colleague about the recent study posted to the
> > list showing increased cancer incidence among airline personnel.
> > Unfortunately I erased the message after I read it. I have not yet
> > faced up to using the archive system. Would it be possible for someone
> > to forward it to me? Cheers, Bill Prestwich prestwic@mcmaster.ca
>
> Research shows higher cancer risk for flight crews
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - New research released Wednesday showed airline
> flight crews had a higher than normal rate of skin and breast cancer.
>
> Researchers at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik found that
> flight attendants who had worked for five or more years were more
> likely to develop breast cancer.
>
> And in a separate study, scientists at the Stockholm Center for
> Public Health in Sweden uncovered an increase in malignant melanoma,
> the deadliest form of skin cancer, among both male and female cabin
> crew.
>
> Previous studies have also suggested that skin cancer and possibly
> acute myeloid leukemia were more common in male pilots and that
> female flight attendants had a raised risk of breast cancer.
>
> "There is mounting evidence that cabin crew appear to have an
> increased risk of malignant melanoma and breast cancer," Dr Elizabeth
> Whelan of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the
> United States said in a commentary on the research studies published
> in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
>
> Whelan said higher doses of cosmic ionizing radiation were found at
> higher altitudes. Doses that flight crews are exposed to have been
> increasing over time as longer flights at higher altitudes have
> become more common.
>
> But she said more research was needed to determine whether the
> increased cancer risk is due to work or other lifestyle factors.
> Further studies being done in the European Union and the United
> States might provide more answers, Whelan added.
>
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